Maggie’s Musings

I wonder at the world sometimes. When I was a kid, my folks taught me to take extra care if I happened to see a disabled person. A wheelchair, a white cane, or a guide dog were dead giveaways. Don’t stare, they told me. Don’t be mean. Go out of your way to make sure […]

The Herald, Scotland (UK)
Friday, October 19, 2007
So, this blind guy walks into a revolving door…
By IAN HAMILTON
My first challenge when staying at an unfamiliar hotel is, believe it or not, finding my way into the building. If the hotel has a revolving door my guide dog, Moss, will see it as a hazard and refuse […]

Della just packed up her new computer and sent it back, shoving the equivalent of two box-fulls of computer parts into one and giving it a good kick on its way out the door. “It’s swimming in the Ganges River,” she told me on the phone.
Of course, Della’s feeling a bit sore about it so […]

Life isn’t fair, but sometimes I really do have to wonder how it can be so dreadfully unfair. Della’s been having a hell of a time with her computer. Her old one, the one she has at home and which she uses to keep in touch with the world, died about three weeks ago. As […]