As I see it…How I see it
I am often asked, “so how much can you see”. Or I hear comments from time to time from folks who don’t know me, “You’re not blind!”. Blindness is a spectrum,...
As I see it…Catching Covid
The Chronicles of Cairns… As a regular traveller for Vision Australia Thursday night in early June 2022 before I travel to Cairns was like any other night. I pack. I review my itinerary. I check in with my wife...
As I see it…the COVID Chronicles
Two years ago it started. None of us knew what we were in for. There has been highs and lows, days when we thought it was over, days when we...
As I see it…it is more than a game
It's 1975, a week before Grand Final day in Sydney, my father tries to convert me. He is an avid Roosters supporter: they’ve overcome Manly and are playing St George...
As I see it…searching for normal
A topic of discussion among my friends, family, colleagues has been: will life ever get back to normal? I’m no Nostradamus and I suppose what is normal? Normal 100 years...
As I see it…300 days between flights.
As a frequent traveller pre-COVID, I enjoyed (endured) 300 days between my last flight pre-COVID and my return to flight as Australia came to grips with a COVID normal state....
As I see it…travel and photography
As a family, we often travelled in Australia: Gulgong and rural NSW, the Snowy Mountains, Canberra, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. My first memory of overseas travel is a...
As I see it…hard work
Mum, bless her soul, writes in her journal in 1982 how happy she is. She has four wonderful boys and a loving and hardworking husband. She writes that Dad has...
As I see it…time and memory
The concept of time weighs heavily with me, even before that crisp August morning. The day you, Mum, died. 29 August, 2017. Judgement day. Image eleven – Mum on her...
As I see it…sight
As you’ve read, I’ve got pretty crappy eyesight. Mum writes in her journal, July 1967, when I’m 18 months old: I feel for him so, although it doesn’t worry him...