It started in 2004, when my optometrist saw something amiss while checking me for new lenses. He sent me to a retinal specialist, who said I had fluid buildup in the back of my eye. He told me, “This usually happens to college age students and type A personalities. No one knows why it happens, [Read More]
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Seeing the Sky
by Tony Morrow I try to see a sunrise every morning and a sunset every evening . In California, it is very possible to see a sunrise and sunset almost every day since there is hardly any day that is overcast. I moved to California mainly because of this. I usually go to bed after [Read More]
Red Sea
by Joel Deutch It felt like instant karma. Payback for almost running over an unsuspecting kid a few years ago, because I hadn’t been smart or brave enough to quit driving when I should have. (See “The Day I Quit Driving”) On a bright, warm Los Angeles September afternoon, I was strolling down Fairfax Avenue [Read More]
Taking Stargardt Disease By The Hand
by Marisa Snyder So, I have been sitting in this “world of alones” dealing with an orphan disease which no one had ever heard of and no one even remotely close to me has it. What is “Stargardt disease”? Who is affected by it? How does one get it? What happens once you are diagnosed [Read More]
The Day I Quit Driving
by Joel Deutch “Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.” –Hazel Motes, the self-blinded preacher in “Wise Blood,” by Flannery O’Connor. __________________________________ All my life I was crazy about cars, starting with the family Studebaker designed by Raymond Loewy that looked like one of the World War II fighter planes I drew all [Read More]