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If he can't see, how can he be an architect?

November 13, 20133 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, public speaking, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

I subscribe to TED Talks. I can’t see their videos, and I rarely click on them, but reading the descriptions of their featured talk each morning gives me an inkling of what “the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers” are thinking and doing these days. Yesterday’s update linked to a talk by an architect who […]

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Go ahead and brag

November 9, 201310 CommentsPosted in blindness, book tour, Braille, parenting a child with special needs, public speaking, technology for people who are blind, travel, Uncategorized, visiting schools, Writing for Children

Remember my post about Vision Forward, the conference about educating kids who are blind? I signed more Braille copies of Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound at that conference than print ones, and this thank-you note from the mom of a five-year-old boy I met there was so moving that I wrote her back to […]

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I was like, "Small world!"

November 3, 20136 CommentsPosted in blindness, guest blog, parenting a child with special needs, Uncategorized

Remember Charlie Simokaitis? Charlie is a commercial photographer, and a while back I published a blog post about a project he took on honoring his teenage daughter. Faye has a deteriorating eye condition that will soon leave her completely blind, and she was the inspiration for Fade to White, a compilation of portraits Charlie took […]

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