NOAH AOC

I left off my last post wondering again how I could make a living. While I was examining my options and considering my next step in late May this year, I started coming down with some mysterious, apparently non-diagnosable, stomach ailment. Not being able to eat tends to disrupt one’s life, to be sure...

Income or Bust, Part I I am on disability, which means I need to find a way to make a living that: 1) depends less on my eyes and more on my strengths, 2) allows me to work from home, where I have appropriate assistive technology set up and which minimizes transportation issues, and 3) gives me more...

NOAH celebrated it’s 25th anniversary last weekend in Philadelphia. Hats off to Mike, Lori, and the local planning committee. It was wonderful celebration of where NOAH has been and a glimpse of where NOAH could go. Here are my comments from that night. “25 years of NOAH, wow, that kind of blows my mind...

This month, I have had my driver’s license for ten years. It’s kind of hard to believe especially, since I never expected to drive. Growing up, I was told repeatedly that I would not be able to drive. I was also told that I couldn’t get contacts or ski. I would later disprove both of those statements...

With my annual eye exam approaching, I knew it was time to consider a new prescription. Reading was getting progressively more difficult and less comfortable, even with 2x flip-down magnifiers over reading glasses, with an occluder clipped on to the clip-on, covering my right eye. (My bad eye, which...

So, who am I and why should you read my posts on this blog? The short answers: I’m still figuring that out. I’m not sure. The long winded answers: In all seriousness, ok, semi-seriousness, I am an albino. I embrace that term, but that is for another blog entry so let’s start over. I am a woman with albinism...