by Vanessa Potter | Jun 5, 2017 | Blindness
It was officially a bad night. I haven’t rested well, which leaves me worried that it might not be a grain-of-sand day today. But, doing a mental body scan I quickly assess that my fingertips aren’t quite as numb this morning. That’s okay, one step at a time, I...
by Vanessa Potter | May 4, 2017 | Blindness, family, children, reading, literacy, books
‘You could have a great barbie out there,’ my brother yawns as he pulls up the window blind, letting the early-morning sunshine stream in. He stretches noisily and I hear comic squelches as he attempts to extricate his sleep-crumpled body from the marshmallow chair....
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 15, 2017 | Blindness
I am well aware of the deep irony that as I am about to publish my first book, until very recently my children considered books a necessary evil to get mum or their teacher off their backs. I have battled with this, not wanting to put them off, but knowing they needed...
by Vanessa Potter | Aug 4, 2016 | Blindness
I shouldn’t have been surprised but I still was. The irony that I was giving a talk on the physiological influence of one’s mind upon the body was uncomfortably present. I couldn’t stop the nerves, the jitters, the fear of standing on a stage in...
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 20, 2016 | Blindness
What can I say – it’s all over now, and I have no idea what I will talk about every evening now. Thanks for having me TEDxGhent, it was fun 😉 #BitsofLove #SecondSight
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 16, 2016 | Blindness
Well I can safely say I don’t think I could have practised the talk I will give this Saturday at 11.02 (!) at De Bijloke in Ghent for TEDx anymore than I have. This morning saw my last practise run to around 50 secondary school students with an interest in...
