I recently got new eyeglasses. I’ve needed corrective lenses since I was eight and a half, so this was not a new experience for me. But every time I get new frames, my image of myself changes. My first glasses were blue cat-eyes. I was assured they were very cute. […]
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Family Resemblances Redux
I hadn’t seen this picture of my mother until I found it in an old picture album when I was preparing a slide show of her life for her funeral last summer. I love the youth and innocence she depicts from a time long before she was my mother. Until […]
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In addition to our 35th wedding anniversary, I have another 35th this year – thirty-five years of wearing contacts. I began wearing glasses as a child, and switched to contacts in the summer of 1977. My opthamologist that summer first tried me in soft lenses. They were easy to wear, […]
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