Gotta Love Breakfast To The Moon And Back

by Kevin Burton    What’s for breakfast?    Good question. Fun question. Breakfast means morning and morning means a new day. A new start. A little surge of hope. And breakfast means fuel for the journey.    So, what’s for breakfast?   The topic takes me back to Saturday mornings in the days of Cap’n …

Survey Names Mexico Best Location For Expats

by Kevin Burton    I’ve done it before; I could do it again if I had to. So file this under “just in case.”    The BBC recently published a list of ten best countries for expatriates – people who leave their home country to live abroad – based on a survey by Internations, the …

Living As Lights In A Crooked World

by Kevin Burton    It took exactly three verses for the Bible to start talking about light.    “Let there be light,” God said. And there was light.    Read backward to Genesis 1:2 and you see that “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”    …

Do You Still Write Personal Letters?

by Kevin Burton    Here’s a shoutout to Angie in Michigan, Linda in England and to hundreds of others who made this post possible.    It’s World Letter Writing Day according to the National Day Calendar. I am still a practitioner of the art. Back in the day, I was an extreme practitioner.    A …

God Knew You Even Before Your Birthday

by Kevin Burton   My birthday is coming up soon, maybe yours is too. I have some worries just now and it’s not shaping up as the best birthday ever.    Maybe you are in the same straits. A message today then, for the both of us. The one sneaked up on me.    Recently …

Here’s To Life In The Age Of Invisibility

by Kevin Burton    The same little girl said a sunshiny “hi” to me twice in the grocery store Tuesday. This was astounding to me, since I am invisible.    You make your circuits in a smallish store and you may cross paths with the same people multiple times.    I gave the girl the …

A Writer Chronicles His Loss Of Vision

by Robert Ito New York Times    In 2019, Andrew Leland began writing a book about blindness, even as he was going steadily blind himself.    Working as his vision deteriorated gave him an insider’s perspective — who better to write about the blind than the blind? — but, as he learned, also made writing …

P&O Cruises Humiliates Blind Passengers

by Kevin Burton    For blind people, being a second-class citizen would represent an upgrade. The following provides another example that proves, when it comes down to it, blind people aren’t treated as citizens at all.   This story was widely reported. My information comes from Insider.    “Two blind passengers who were ordered to …

Feeding Body, Mind And Spirit On The Road

by Kevin Burton    Got an unexpected comfort on the road last week that filled the stomach and the heart.    There isn’t much I don’t like about being on the road. I can see why so many people have written so many love songs to the road and the road life.    I’ve spent …

Seeking An SOS From Beepball And ABBA

by Kevin Burton    Eureka I say, eureka! I have my beep baseball problems figured out.    In athletics they say, father time is undefeated, and that’s true. But all I need is a great idea, and an SOS, from ABBA.    This is truly exciting!    You’ve probably heard about ABBA Voyage, a virtual …