One night I was having dinner with some dear friends of mine. It was a great ham dinner. One for the ages really. My friends, who we’ll call Gordon and Ethel had done a fantastic job preparing it for us. Several more of our friends were there. The plan was…
It may seem odd for a person who is legally blind, and not allowed to drive, to have anything to do with the Department of Motor Vehicles, but I did indeed have to make an appointment there one time. I was in need of a some government issued identification, and…
The following anecdote is the same sort of situation that happens every time I get new glasses, so it could describe any one of those incidents. However, for the sake of easier memory, I attempt to describe for you the most recent time this happened. I had gone through the…
You will notice that a lot of my University stories that were actually interesting involved me sitting around with a group of friends in one of our dorm rooms. This one starts out in pretty much the same way. Dilbert, who you will remember from “Full Moon” (yes we still…
I should tell you right up front that I am not a violent person by nature and generally do not condone such behavior from others. …but sometimes things just happen unintentionally. That doesn’t make them any more OK though. Perhaps I should get into the story and you’ll get what…
Ah, University. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This story reflects one of the not so great times of this Dickensian sentiment as you will see in a moment. I was hanging out with several of my friends in one of our dorm rooms. …
Because sometimes well intentioned friends can be too helpful. This happens to me all the time, so speaking of a particular instance would be no different than any other. I will be walking along on a perfectly sunny day and enjoying it very much, usually coming home from Church, but…
This is from my side project A Thicker Lens but I thought it would be useful to post and discuss here also. *** Because sometimes well intentioned friends can be too helpful. This happens to me all the time, so speaking of a particular instance would be no different than…
It’s about time we covered this topic, don’t you think? Just so you know all of my eye exams go pretty much the same way so this story really could be any one of them, but this one was particularly memorable. So with out further to do. It was an…
When I was around 5 or 6 years old, I went with my parents, whom I love dearly, to a place called the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority or APSEA for a couple days of what they called assessment. It was two days of different eye tests, some which were…