Friday Music: The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama are an old-school gospel group that's been singing and touring since 1939. Yeah, 1939 . That's a lot of c...

Things that crack me up #37

This is a the latest of a series at my blog , usually consisting of an amusing visual image about disability. Visual descriptions are meant ...

Things that crack me up, #32

For Steve and Connie : Visual description: It's a color photo evidently taken somewhere on graduation day as many of the people in the b...

Things that crack me up, #29

"This is a job for Blindness Girl!" And, her resume explained by Steve Kuusisto at (where else?) Planet of the Blind.

Poetry Monday: Every Man's Burden

The Magic Wand by Lynn Manning Quick-change artist extraordinaire, I whip out my folded cane and change from black man to blind man with a f...

Poetry Monday: The Knife of Language

Helen Takes the Stage by Kathi Wolfe (Helen Keller starred in a vaudeville show The Bluebird of Happiness in 1924.) Here I am, playing,...

The Sparrow

I've been reading The Sparrow , by Mary Doria Russell . It's a captivating novel about a Jesuit-funded mission to contact newly-disc...

Blind Rage and the legacy of Helen Keller

It wasn't until I began reading Georgina Kleege's Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Heller that I realized my own ambivalence to the dea...

Mini-Slumgullion

An all non-Ashley version: Connie at Planet of the Blind writes about trading up to get her husband Steve. Amy Tenderich at Diabetes Mine ...

Books for the new year

Happy New Year everyone! Like every book lover I know, I've got a towering (and growing) pile of books waiting to be read. I thought I...

Book meme

I've been tagged by IrrationalPoint for this book meme, which will offer a little taste of the book review I'm currently working on...

Saturday Slumgullion #21 -- Currency Edition

The original news from AP via CBS News : In late November, a federal judge ruled that United States paper currency discriminates against bli...

Visit the Disability Carnival #4

The newest installment of the Disability Carnival is up over at Diary of a Goldfish . Great reading for the long holiday weekend there, so c...