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Going Blind 10: Hail Volta

Posted on October 4, 2015

By Craig J. Hansen It’s been a while since my last blog. I’ve been busy. I decided a while ago that stumbling around, trying to hide impaired vision, was not a productive long-term strategy. I have learned to use a white cane fairly well. It’s awkward and I can’t help feeling like a human weed…
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Degenerating

Posted on March 2, 2015

I was north of San Francisco with a group of family members, traveling along Highway 1. Every once in a while, along this beautiful, twisting road, you find pullovers or side roads that lead to a small beach nestled in the cliffs. We stopped at one of these and walked down to the sand. As…
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Recent Sketches

Wrong Number

She dials, listens to the ring tone, and as soon as she hears the click that shows someone picked up, she says, “I’m leaving. I just wanted you to know that. You don’t even care. I’m walking out the door right now and I left the kitchen a mess and you don’t even care.” A…
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Milk Carton

“So, how long have you been playing that thing?” “I don’t know. Since I was a kid.” “Well, you’re pretty good.” The man who says this looms over the guitar player, looks like a biker. He’s big, leather jacketed, bandanna topped, bearded, tattooed, heavy booted, decorated with patches and pins. The biker points at the…
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Dog Talk

My two dogs sit comfortably in the living room. Jake sits on the seat of a wingback chair. He has a thick coat of mostly black fur, Border Collie bones, and a wolfish head. Zoey, a mutt, also has mostly black fur, graying in the face. She has kind eyes. Both are about 60 pounds…
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