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How I Became A Concert Organist

November 10, 2022 by Michael Bayus 1 Comment

The Earliest Years As I sit down to write this, I think back to my early childhood. I heard my first Organ probably at age 3 months or so at my baptism but don't remember that day too well otherwise. at the age of 18 months, I heard a big pipe organ for the first… Read more about How I Became A Concert Organist

Filed Under: Music Review, Personal Essay

That Championship Season

August 4, 2022 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Foreword This blog has been evolving into a more full spectrum web site providing a wide range of subjects about blind people and blindness. In the past couple of weeks, the team I've assembled and I decided to split chrishofstader.com, the blog you're currently reading, into two sites, the second being called World Blind Herald… Read more about That Championship Season

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Legal Weed Is Weird

July 21, 2022 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Introduction By Chris Hofstader In the more than 500 articles I've published on this site and BlindConfidential before it, I have never collaborated with a second writer on a piece so this one might sound a bit different from my usual fare. This story is broken up into three major sections. In the first section,… Read more about Legal Weed Is Weird

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My Friend Sina Bahram

June 16, 2022 by Chris Hofstader 4 Comments

Introduction One of the hardest problems I had when writing this article was selecting a title that might attract readers and tell them something about the story ahead of them. This article starts about twenty years ago and is about an individual who has done many different things, mostly related to accessibility so it was… Read more about My Friend Sina Bahram

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Tellis

April 28, 2022 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Introduction In March, I published an article called "The X-Dog and Me" which told a number of anecdotes (mostly amusing) about life with my first guide dog, X-Celerator. There is a passage in that article about a number of trips we made to Miami Beach to hang out with my late friend Tellis. After I… Read more about Tellis

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