About Me

I wasn’t supposed to lose the 20-20 vision I was born with, nor was I expected to survive the cancer that took it from me while still an infant. My childhood love of music made sense to the wonderful people who raised me, while my profound fascination with colour and imagery was decidedly less logical. This trend continued, imbedding an amusingly perverse streak in an otherwise compliant, even conformist, personality. The sighted world I inhabited held much more interest for me than the one I seemed most likely to understand, and so I explored it to the best of my ability. Passions and passtimes sometimes took an unconventional bent under the influence of this streak, and even my career path was marked out for me when a respected member of my chosen industry told me the job I aspired to (and currently hold) would be impossible for a blind person to master.

This blog will not be devoted to self-indulgent musings on my personality quirks, but will rather explore the more unexpected hobbies those quirks have led me to embrace. Fashion and cooking are chief among these, but I’m sure others will surface as I fill this space. If there are any issues you would like to see me discuss, please go ahead and drop me a line. I abhore political correctness, have no qualms whatsoever about discussing any aspect of my blindness and would love the chance to throw the floor open for some dialog. I insist, however, that this dialog be respectful at all time. Any comments that are cruel, rude or intolerant towards myself or others will be deleted immediately.