Editor’s note: This post is part of the new Blind Parenting series created to provide visually impaired parents with first-hand accounts of how you can raise a child safely and independently. Today’s post is the first segment on your options of feeding your baby as a parent with vision loss. Blind Parenting: Breastfeeding Baby By … Continued
Editor’s note: This is part of our ongoing series on Laughter Is Often the Best Medicine. The contributors to this series hope their vignettes provide a chuckle, an "aha moment," or dispel myths about visual impairment for all readers. Enjoying Horse Races Since Childhood Whenever I think of the Kentucky Derby, I am reminded of … Continued
The Arts Festival Is for Everyone One of the highlights of summer in Columbus, Ohio, is the annual arts festival, held on the first weekend in June. I went today and had a wonderful time. Hundreds of booths and tents line the two main bridges downtown and the streets that connect them. In this photo, … Continued
Editor’s note: Just in time for Memorial Day and the opening of swimming pools across America, Mary Hiland writes about the joys of swimming! So read up and enjoy the holiday with a dip in the pool! Discovering the Joy of Sports I have never thought of myself as an athlete. As a little girl, … Continued
Editor’s note: This is second in our series for Mother’s Day. We hope you will read and comment. Just Like Any Other Parent How do you explain blindness to a two-year-old? You don’t. You don’t need to. As a mother of a son and a daughter and a grandmother of five granddaughters, I have some … Continued
Editor’s note: Continuing with Financial Literacy Month, Mary Hiland offers tips on what she does as a blind person and informed consumer to protect her identity. Preventing Identity Theft, An Impossible Mission? Preventing identity theft seems to be an impossible mission because the thieves, i.e. hackers, are a whole lot smarter than I am. But … Continued
Here’s a twist on making a New Year’s Resolution. Oh sure, we can still make those promises to ourselves to lose weight, exercise more, eat more veggies, and engage in any number of self-improvement projects. But what if we added a goal to be accomplished by the end of 2016? It might be something practical … Continued
Editor’s note: This past week’s posts have covered many aspects of dealing with loneliness and depression during the holidays in a positive way. In this in-between week between Christmas and New Year’s, many of us start to think about what “resolutions” we should make. In this post, Mary Hiland discusses what she did to make … Continued
The United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities is annually held on December 3 to focus on issues that affect people with disabilities worldwide. At VisionAware, our peer advisors share how having a disability is more about what we can do with a so called ‘disability’ when we focus on all our talents and … Continued
“Thank you for your service.” It’s a sentiment our veterans are hearing a lot today. But this was not always the greeting they got on returning home. Thanks to a national program called Honor Flight, my friend Bob, age 92, received it all day long one day this past April. These Honor Flights were created … Continued