​I still remember the silence in the room when our pediatrician told us that our baby girl was blind or visually impaired. Time seemed to stand still, as hundreds of questions ran through our heads. When Alynah was...

I’ll never forget that day and how empty I felt. As I sat down on the eye specialist’s chair, he handed me a box of Kleenex and broke the news – I was slowly going blind. “You’ll have to give up your independent...

It’s so very hard to think of that day. Even now, almost five years later, we still celebrate our daughter Ada’s birthday the weekend after, because we can’t pull ourselves into a party mode on that particular date....

Every year, when the weather gets warmer, I get excited because summer is around the corner, and this means that I’ll be returning to Camp Massawippi – one of my favorite places to be. My name is...

One morning, during Peyton’s third week of kindergarten, she turned to us and asked “is there anything wrong with my eyes?” Some of the older children at school had been teasing her, saying they...