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
Personal Essay
Legal Weed Is Weird
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
My Friend Sina Bahram
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
Tellis
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
The X-Dog And Me
Introduction Any blind person who has a guide dog has a number of stories about their animal doing something amusing. Long term readers of this blog and especially BlindConfidential before it, will remember that a lot of the satirical fiction written under the Gonz Blinko moniker had a character who was a yellow Labrador I… Read more about The X-Dog And Me