Brown Eyed Girl

Looking at all these newly-bought vegetables recently on my kitchen counter, I wondered what I was going to do with them. I’d chosen the red, yellow and green variety which...

Being on speaking terms with Alexa or Siri can be a great help around the house, especially for those with vision loss. Some of us, though, are yet to make...

There is a saying that sometimes, after a devastating event, people are left with “nothing but the clothes on their backs”.  After my parents’ house fire (described in Part 1...

Our family used to have trouble remembering when things happened. For example, when did we all go away for that beach holiday together? Or what year did we have seafood...

Every morning I walk (sometimes struggle) up the fairly steep hill from home to our shopping village, about a kilometer away. I do this partly because I know I “should”...

This year has been strange and difficult for everyone. In this very unusual 2020, my family experienced a rare and unfamiliar condition relating to my mother’s eye health. I asked...

When my mother was in her mid-sixties she noticed problems with her vision and went to the best eye specialist she could find. He told her that she had dry...