Mothers, Help Your Sons Grow Up to be Fathers…
My oldest son, Francis, grew up amongst a caravan of foster brothers and sisters. Specializing in newborns and infants who had been affected by prenatal drug exposure and addiction, our family was...
View ArticleHow Do the Blind See a Tree?
Most people can look up and see a tree. To a child who is blind or visually impaired, their concept of a tree is the bark they can feel. Their concept of a tree is that it is” rough”. If they have...
View ArticleIt Made Me Love Him More
My hubby took good care of my brother when he used to come home on weekends, (he lived in a group home during the week.) Curtis was a lively, spirited young man who also happened to be deaf, legally...
View ArticleBring the Fattened Calf; The Prodigal Son Returns
The holiday season joyously reunites my family! Although Francis is not entirely a Prodigal Son, he is the one son who moved out of state to seek his fame and fortune. Having his Ph.D. from Cambridge...
View ArticleI’ll Stay Inside Til Spring
Looked out the window today and all I saw was snow. Literally, the entire window was covered with snow, which reached up to the roof. Due to the high winds that blew the light and fluffy stuff across...
View ArticleA Fluffy, Cold Piece of Cotton
I had a lovely school vacation adventure by taking 20 kiddos who are blind to New Hampshire. What a lot of work, you say???? The work doesn’t compare to the joy that fills my heart as I watch these...
View ArticleWith the Wind Just Flying Through My Hair
DIGITAL CAMERA Like many of you when driving, my mind races with thoughts of things I have to do, problems to solve, errands to run, crisis to deal with and so forth. Yesterday was different. As I was...
View Article“If You Look for the Goodness in Your Children, Good Things Will Happen”
My dear friends and readers, Please excuse this commercial interruption of your regular reading. If you enjoy reading my blog, you will LOVE reading my book! The Apple Tree: Raising 5 Kids With...
View ArticleTermites Aren’t so Bad
My oldest son, Francis, was born “legally blind”. His visual acuity stabilized at 20/400. (In layman’s terms, what a fully sighted person could see 400 feet away, Francis could only see blurrily at...
View ArticleDifferences
Occasionally with my morning tea I play on the website Game Duel. This international site has all of the regular games for free; solitaire, Crazy 8s, Yahtzee and so forth. After waking up, I enjoy...
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