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Below is an editorial written by Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind. It regards an incident at an ice skating rink and was published in the Baltimore Sun . I have loved ice skating since I was a kid. When I was in the fourth through sixth grade we lived on the Air Force Academy...

This picture is of Tina and her guide dog Rosa. Last week I posted that I was going to a going-away event. It was for my friend Tina who I’ve known since my days at the University of Kansas. We advocated for better services for blind and visually impaired students together, along with Leann (who answered...

I’d appreciate it if you all would say a few prayers for the family of my godchildren. My friend Annette developed leukemia last year and has been doing chemotherapy for a year now. It’s been a hard road for her and she’s been sick most of the time. The children were sent to live with their grandparents...

I hate to post ths on the blog, but in the process of moving files around etc. I've lost the contact info for my friend Leean in Baltimore....I know she reads the blog from time to time.....if you're out there, shoot me an e-mail.....I want to hear all about the honeymoon and what's been...

Thanks to all the people that noticed I hadn't posted in several days and checked up on me! You guys are awesome! Yes, I was under the weather, but that was only partly why I've been absent from blogging. The other reason is that somehow my blog (I'd love to know how) set of the spam alerts...

I talked to Ryan while I was eating lunch yesterday. I think he’s getting bored. He was laying on Sara’s couch watching TV, and I think I woke him up. Harvey the cat is keeping him company and he’s off the prescription pain killers and now on Tylenol. But, he’s still keeping ice on the wound and says...

Ahhh…wedding planning. Ryan and Sara have been hard at work planning their wedding. Ryan asked Matt to be his best man, and they’ve asked me to do some artwork for the wedding program etc. I’m thrilled to do it, but I’m a little rusty. I think I need to do some warm-up art first. Grin! It looks like...

I haven’t blogged about this because I wasn’t sure if Ryan was going to share it, but since he put it on the HPS Adults listserv, I know it’s okay. I’ve just been swamped. Yesterday Ryan had surgery to repair an intestinal hernia. The surgery went very well. He had almost no bleeding, didn’t require...

We had big news this weekend. As regular blog readers know, Ryan’s heart has been captured by a girl from Virginia named Sara. Grin! On Friday night, Ryan took Sara on a dinner boat cruise, and as the boat turned around and the Washington Memorial was in the background, Ryan took Sara to the front of...

My mom is visiting me right now. So far it’s been a good visit. Yesterday we went to see the new expansion of the Nielson-Atkins Museum of Art. It’s been open for quite a while, but I’ve never had anyone that wanted to go. My mom was an art major for her undergraduate work and knows a lot about art history...