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I Love Shopping
The internet has made available to me everything I could ever want. I have purchased almost everything off of the web even a house. I did have a trusted friend confirm the property was what I would want but I hadn’t seen it before the deal was closed. I Love Shopping Podcast Malls in a […]
Family
It’s very hard for your family when you’re born with a disability. There is the whole set of issues around what did we do wrong why do we deserve this why is god punishing us. Then they have to deal with what and how will this baby grow up and make its way in the […]
Darkness
A blind man is handy to have around in the dark. I live in the sticks can you believe that? I can’t. I live in a small town in the mountains and I’m happy about it. Yes logistics are difficult and its hard getting places but yet I’m happy. Living in the middle of nowhere […]
Curse You Cursive
Time shows us that language reading or writing has only been available to about two percent of the population at any given time in human history. Historically the clergy were the ones who were taught to read and write. In the last fifty years this has changed dramatically. High technology historically was the pen and […]
Orientation / Navigation
I grew up in Calgary next to some of the best skiing in the world. My cousin told me that when you’re in an avalanche you need to spit to find out which way your buried in the snow. So you don’t dig the wrong way. When the spit starts hitting your face you know […]
Diversity Directions
My fiancee has a high data quality requirement for directions. No I’m not picking on my fiancee its just I have someone to show me the world and I’m learning so I’m sharing my learnings. Anyway. I can’t give directions to my fiancee at all. She needs street names and major intersections. These things are […]
Six Months and Still Babbling
WOW Its been six months since I started WWW.BlindManCan.COM. Its been fun. The comments have been interesting. I know people are reading the blog. The biggest theme is why don’t you describe more of what you’ve learned or tell more about how you felt in your blog posts. I want more. Six Months and Still Babbling […]
Where Dreams Come True
God has a way of getting the point across. God has been telling me emphatically for a few months now. Follow your voice follow your voice. People have been saying more and more often. You have such a great voice you should do radio. I even ran into someone in a store who remembered my […]
Groups
For all of us inclusion of some manner in a group is comforting. People’s thinking seems to be focused around categorization. We all need a hole to fit into be it round or square its kind of up to us as individuals. Sometimes how you fit a square peg in a round hole is with […]
Its Crunch Time
In these tough economic times people with disabilities are going to take a huge hit. I read an article today that governments are thinking of canceling the death penalty to save money. You know if you have a disability that your screwed when the death row dude is going to live because they can’t afford […]
