News and Current Events

As many of you are aware, my wife of almost 40 years, Karen, passed away this past November 12. It was only 15 days before we would have celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. I sent out [...]

  It is with a heavy heart that I send this this post with you today. In April 1972 I attended my first meeting of the Orange County chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. It was [...]

I am sitting at my desk in my home office dictating this article into my computer using voice recognition software called Dragon Naturally Speaking. Today is April 14, 2021. On this date in 1912, [...]

On September 11, 2019 we observed the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center, the pentagon and the thwarted attack resulting in an aircraft crash in Shanksville [...]

I am a collector of classic radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.  If you are not familiar with the genre, it’s the entertainment that was in wide use before the invention of [...]

We are about to observe the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center, the pentagon and the thwarted attack resulting in an aircraft crash in Shanksville Pennsylvania. [...]

Someone once said that God made a mistake when he created dogs because their lives end too quickly. It was June 27, 2011 when I sat in front of my computer to write down my thoughts concerning [...]

Walmart has officially announced the nationwide rollout of ScripTalk audible prescription labels as a free service for their low vision, blind and print impaired pharmacy customers.  This [...]

Baltimore, Maryland (July 31, 2019): The National Federation of the Blind, the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans, today applauded the introduction of the Greater [...]