Why I Haven't Been Blogging

I don't imagine that people have been losing sleep over my apparent disappearance from the blogosphere these past weeks but I do want to explain "the dilemma"as I've come to know it. If you are blind or visually impaired and you use screen reading software to interact with computers andwebsites you discover over and over again that your ability to negotiate these machines and environments is very fragile. Recently the folks  at Type Pad adopted a new posting site for their bloggers and I found that this newfangled site didn't work with my screen reading software. This is of course a boring story and if yu're blind like me you know that it's also a never ending story. But I'm now back in business having upgraded my screen reader to a newer version.

Now that I'm back I really ought to have a great story to tell. I was under the earth with the sun for company–both of us in hiding in due appreciation of an old Scandinavian folk tale. We were rescued at last by a iron monger poet who could recite all the poems of his people going all the way back to the day the earth rose from the back of a turtle.

So being away wasn't so bad. I can report however that both the sun and the iron moner had bad breath. Cosmic breath. Even Paracelsus would have found it hard to hang with those guys.

S.K.

Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University View all posts by stevekuusisto