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    Catching a Ride on the Gratitude Train

    Posted on September 19, 2021 by in Featured

    I was rocking it – thinking I had grief completely under wraps when it crashed down on me a few weeks ago. It happened when I learned that I had been shut out of a clinical trial for a new optogenetics drug I was convinced would give me back my eyesight. Somewhere in the recesses […]

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  • How to Pull Yourself Up When Life Throws You Down

    Posted on December 13, 2019 by in Featured

    This vision loss thing has knocked me down hard plenty of times over the past year. And I know I’m not alone when it comes to the pain of this and other knock-out blows that life occasionally delivers. The only real question is how to get back on our feet once we regain consciousness and […]

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  • How Do You Define Disability?

    Posted on December 6, 2019 by in Featured

    I never gave much thought to the word Disability until I was slapped with that label and told to expect widespread stigma and social isolation. That’s when I understood just how messed up these ingrained prejudices and assumptions are when it comes to people dealing with a challenge that has been shoved under the disabilities […]

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    What If Fear Didn’t Matter?

    Posted on October 8, 2019 by in Featured

    I’ve started thinking of fear as a malaria-carrying mosquito in Africa. They are tiny and lethal and impossible to escape. And as far as I can tell, there are only three real ways to deal with them. We  can freak out and launch a frantic attack on any mosquito we encounter — which is exhausting […]

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