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“Oh St Lucy, preserve the light of my eyes so that I may see the beauties of creation, the glow of the sun, the color of the flowers and the...

It’s been an unseasonably warm few months here in the midwest. I’ve been taking complete advantage of the nicer weather and enjoying my morning run outside each day. It sure...

Remember when you were first diagnosed with AMD?  Of course you do, it was frightening, confusing and depressing! I for one, wish my eye doctors would have been more compassionate...

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”...

The holidays have arrived! I have made it a priority this season to slow down and not let the season's inevitable craziness sneak in to steal my jolly. This has...

Somehow time has sped forward at an impossible rate of speed. I know we have all said it, how can nine months have slipped away with COVID-19 hanging over our...

Although I don’t think it is going to last too long, I am excited we are all being “paroled” this week. Released from our captivity! Our county has gone green!...

We all know the ol’ Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, about Ebenezer Scrooge. You know, the guy who hates Christmas because it highlights his own unhappiness and brings back memories...

As we navigate a holiday season confounded by a worsening global pandemic, it is once again time to make lemonade out of lemons and learn new skills. As much as...

No matter your diagnosis or how long you have been challenged with macular degeneration (MD), we all know there is definitely a downside and to ignore that it exists is...

Life is a journey, not a guided tour... Once upon a time, perhaps back in the 1980s, that phrase seemed to be everywhere. From note cards to coffee cups, we...

I was very fortunate in being born in St. Louis, Missouri, the Midwest, to a very loving family. I was born to young parents, number three of four daughters, in...

I was reminded the other day of some of the additional costs of living with macular degeneration. I had been shopping for a battery for my portable lighted magnifier, when...

Vision loss was something I learned about early in life.  At a young age, my father lost the vision in one eye as the result of an accident. The loss of...

I was in my kitchen last weekend cooking up some chili for a family chili cookoff. It was a beautiful fall morning. The kind where the windows are open and...

Sometimes, the time between retinal rechecks feels like a honeymoon of sorts. Definitely not the holiday at the beach kind of honeymoon, more like an escape from the real world...

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...

This is yet another attempt at trying to assure I - and everyone else - do NOT become roadkill. I don’t know about you, but speaking for myself, that sort...

Last fall was a really difficult time in my life. My sweet grandmother passed away and my ex-husband’s alcoholism spun out of control. I was working two jobs and parenting...