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 | May 22, 2014 | Blindness
My new lower prescription specs arrived in the post and got their first outing at Croydon University hospital. The intention is for my eyes to level out a little and to reduce the dominance of my right eye. It is also to restrict my constant habit of trying to focus...
by Vanessa Potter | Apr 15, 2014 | Blindness
What is luck? No, really – what is luck? I can’t help but feel it is two sides of a rusty old coin, but it’s more that that of course; it’s a force. It’s something that takes you over and has power over you. It’s uncontrollable. It’s a bad thing for us control freaks;...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 31, 2014 | Blindness
The features of modern technology recently allowed me to eavesdrop a valuable and insightful conversation between my little one, and his four year old cousin as they walked hand in hand through a National Trust forest.They pragmatically and succinctly discussed...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 29, 2014 | Blindness
It’s not quite a full ‘banshee’ morning but it’s not far off. My voice has been raised for at least the last 20 minutes as my unresponsive children are systematically ignoring me. Shouting is having little impact; but the reflex is too strong to resist...
