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3 Benefits to a Low Vision Exam

3 Benefits to a Low Vision Exam A low vision exam is usually set up through referral, either by a regular optometrist or an eye specialist. The specialist may practice in the same network or practice...

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Friday Friends: Spotlight on Tom Owens and Cisco

Friday Friends Spotlight on Tom Owens and Cisco Tom Owens was one of the first members I met from the joint Lions Club Dinner in the Dark planning committee.  Extending his hand right away, he...

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Christmas Doesn’t Happen Without Me

Christmas Doesn’t Happen Without Me There’s a local commercial on television this holiday season. Three women are dressed up in festive party attire. They dance down a staircase and sing, “Christmas...

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2016: Doing a New Thing!

Doing a New Thing! Goals for 2016 19 See, I am doing a new thing!     Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness     and streams in the wasteland. –Isaiah 43:19, NIV...

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2015: A Tough Year

2015: A Tough Year of Endurance and Change 8 “Forget the former things;     do not dwell on the past.”                                             The post 2015: A Tough Year appeared first on Amy's...

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What I Blog About

What I Blog About Life Adventures With Vision Loss A Big welcome to all my new readers at Amy’s Adventures! In this blog, I talk about coping with progressive vision and hearing loss as well as my...

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Coming to Terms with Fear

Coming to Terms with Fear A Change I Could Not See   For years, I feared losing my vision. But I learned to adapt. My vision loss didn’t change my career or any of my goals. I just approached them in...

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What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances? Many Pennsylvanians take their chances on Lottery in hopes of striking it rich. One time my brother won a thousand dollars and another time five hundred. I have known lots of...

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Is God Faithful?

Is God Faithful?  Can I Trust Him When I’m in a Time Crunch? Sometimes my word-wrestling leaves me exhausted and I delete whole paragraphs with little to show for  a day’s work. I wasn’t meeting my...

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Audio Book Is Released

Audio Book Is Released Drawing Announced! Readers had a strong, positive response to my paperback and Kindle formats of Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith. Soon they asked if I could make it...

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Early Review of Audiobook

Early Review of Audiobook by Jenelle Landgraf Jenelle Landgraf, a vision-impaired colleague who also lives with Retinitis Pigmentosa, reviewed my book this week. She wrote, “I feel like I know you...

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Friday Friends: Spotlight on Mary Corbitt

Spotlight on Mary Morgan-Corbitt “Following My Heart With Music” Though I can’t quite recall when I met Mary Morgan Corbitt, I know that my life is richer with her in it. Her contagious Midwestern...

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Friday Friends: Mary Corbitt Part 2

Spotlight on Mary Morgan Corbitt Inspirational Speaker Welcome back to Part 2 of my interview with Mary Morgan-Corbitt. Today,  she’ll talk about her speaking opportunities. Mary, just to recap from...

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Who Will Lead Whom?

Who Will Lead Whom? An Excerpt from Cane Confessions With the spring sun warming me through the French doors, I sat on the top step that led down to the laundry room, cell phone in hand. I was speaking...

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Who Will Lead Whom? Part 2

Who Will Lead Whom?  A Sunset Parking Lot Adventure Soon we arrived. I took several deep breaths. We had agreed my date would be waiting inside the restaurant. The excited flutter returned to my...

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Who Will Lead Whom? Part 3

Who Will Lead Whom? Uh-Oh, Something’s Missing!  My brother wandered over to see the tee-shirts and also to give us some time alone together. My late ‘entrance’ jumpstarted the conversation. The first...

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A Beautiful Wreck: A Book Review

A Beautiful Wreck: Book Review “An Emotional Powerhouse” Types of Reviews I Do:  Once in awhile I agree to post a review in my blog. Sometimes my review focuses on a memoir written by a person who...

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Future Projections

Future Projections Keeping your Goals Limber and in Mind Yesterday, I told you about how I started blogging and how that in time, led to writing my first and current book. Today I’m going to talk about...

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AbbyOnTheMove

#AbbyOnTheMove A Blindness Awareness Campaign for Women I was headed to Pittsburgh, PA for an appointment with an eye specialist and afterward planned to meet up with a vision-impaired peer advisor I...

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Friday Friends: Back to School With Matt Harris

Friday Friends Spotlight Back to School With Matt Harris After an upbeat conversation with my fellow author about choosing to return to academics despite significant hearing loss and profound vision...

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