Personal Essay

Introduction Any blind person who has a guide dog has a number of stories about their animal doing something amusing. Long term readers of this blog and especially BlindConfidential before it, will remember that a lot of the satirical fiction written under the Gonz Blinko moniker had a character who was a yellow Labrador I… Read more about The X-Dog And Me

Introduction When I first started blogging and was writing articles for BlindConfidential two or three times per week, I did so to add a more critical voice to the community of people with vision impairment. I wanted to show how AT companies earned windfall profits on devices that they could manufacture pretty inexpensively. I wanted… Read more about Major Progress In Mainstream Accessibility

Introduction I wrote my first blog article in January 2006. It was mostly just an announcement that I was starting a blog called BlindConfidential and a few ideas about what I would write about. I wrote two or three BlindConfidential articles per week fairly consistently until 2011 when I decided to take some time off… Read more about Why I Write A Blog

Disclaimer This article describes my personal experience with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, better known by its initials, TMS. This is a treatment for mental health, primarily depression and anxiety and is only approved by FDA for depression. Before I endeavored to start this cycle of treatments (36 in all), I had been prescribed and tried nearly… Read more about TMS: My Experience

Introduction Last April, I published a piece here called, "A Long Time Between Articles" that briefly discussed a lot of topics. Under the heading, "Where Does All Of The Money Go?" I wrote that I suspected that many if not most large non-profit organizations who claim to serve the population of people with vision impairment… Read more about Blindness Charities And Money, Part 1: The Aggregation