Saturday, December 5, 2020

New blog coming Need help with URL suggestions

Hello everyone I am in the process of creating a new blog that is going to go in this section and I need help with url suggestions as the URL at Blogger is not taking what I am trying to put in I am not sure if I'm putting the address in wrong or what I'm doing it's been quite a while since I've created one of these So any help would be greatly appreciated

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Something revealed

Sitting here in the Sharp's tiny kitchen this morning I learned just how easy it is to teach someone something just through setting an example. What do I mean by that, you ask?/> My mother told me once before she passed that I was always particular about where I put things and that everything had to have a place. I realized just what she meant this morning. /> As one who deals daily with living without sight everything in my world has to have a specific place.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Summer is here!

For the second Sunday in June it sure is hot. Summer is one of my
favorite times of the year. Barbecues, spending time with family and
friends, and catching up with people are a few benefits of summer.
During the summer as a child my parents and I would go up north on the
weekends. Sometimes I would go with my grandparents.

Monday, May 14, 2012

The purpose of this blog/book

The purpose of this blog and book is to talk about my disability and to hopefully help people make things accessible that aren't and to improve things that may be accessible to some people, but not all. A lot of people don't realize that not having things made accessible for their clients with disabilities can cause them to lose business. Books not made accessible for students can cause schools and colleges to lose students.
This book is to help people that don't know how to deal with someone with a disability learn how to deal with such a person, and to learn ways in which to do that.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Waiting in the shadows

I'm not a poet by any means, but this seemed like an excellent title for a blog post.
Waiting in the shadows is one who is still grieving the loss of her mother.
One who will also one day grieve the loss of her father. One who sits alone and wonders if she will indeed spend the rest of her life alone. Without knowing "real" love.
The definition of real true love is accepting someone for who they are, not what they drive or how they live.
Someone who has been alone for most of her life because of her disability has found someone who loves her for who she truly is and you won't accept him, because
you want to see him for what he was, not what he has become.
Is he perfect? No, not by any means, but this world would be a pretty boring place if everyone was perfect. We both try hard to be perfect, but we always come up short because we both know that we're not perfect. We're human.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Rosco and Teddy

I adopted Rosco on January fourth of this year (20119) from the Detroit branch of the Michigan Humane Society.
He is a German Shepherd, Australian cattle dog mix. I started training him for guide dog work shortly after getting him by taking him in to all kinds of places to socialize him with people and to expose him to different kinds of noises for work later on. Once he reached six months old however he began getting sick and having other problems. I can't use him for service work now because he has a floating hip and floating knees and I am unable to afford the surgery to reposition the knees properly, so he is just a pet now. I can't believe where eight months has gone though. He turned a year old this past Sunday.
The fourth of September.
He has grown so much in the past several months. He has turned into a big baby. :)
I also have a chocolate lab named Teddy who I adopted in May and I am in the process of training to be a guide dog since Rosco is unworkable. Teddy is around a year old and is also a rescue from a shelter. All three of my animals are from shelters and unless I'm looking for something specific in a particular breed all of my dogs from here on out will be from shelters.
I train my own, and I started with Rosco because with owner-training you can teach the dogs to do many more tasks than any of the schools do. The schools who train guide dogs train for one specific purpose and that is the guidework.
Granted you can teach the dog other things once you get them home if you go to a school to get a dog, but thank you very much, my theory is starting from the beginning is much easier than starting after they are trained for one specific task.
Clickers make wonderful markers for training.
I have several of them because they are plastic and they can brake.