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Stories & Essays

Reports From a Fading World

Polling Place Blues

“Ninety-nine and a half just won’t do,” sings soul man Wilson Pickett to a reluctant lover. “Just won’t get it.” When it comes to disability access accommodations, Same thing applies.

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Red Sea

Why should I advertise my disability by carrying the long white cane, I asked myself, when I could still see the sidewalk at my feet?

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Losing the Movies

Would audio description cut through the low vision blur and save the cinema for this lifetime movie lover?

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Express

Talk about being stuck on the wrong train…

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Exits and Entrances

A cross-cultural Independence Day pastoral

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The Day I Quit Driving

You’ve got to know when to hang up those car keys and just walk away

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Music of the Mind

Even though I could barely see, I wanted to get a sense of Frank Gehry’s celebrated new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Would a guided tour be any help?

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Articulating a Life

A chance encounter, an interrupted dream of perfect diction

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