Jennifer Morash

People keep blogs for different reasons, and I think they're all pretty valid, even if I may not agree with the actual message being conveyed. Some people keep them for the validation that being heard brings. That is completely okay. Some people use them as a soapbox of sorts, a means to convey a particular viewpoint. That's also okay. The medium actually isn't always the message. Some people write to make money. Again, okay. 　 So why am I writing one? Several reasons, actually. 　 Firstly, it is part of my goal to write more. In fact, I set myself a goal of writing once a day, every day, a little over two and a half weeks ago at the time this will be posted. At the time of writing (not the same thing), I have met that goal. 　 Part of my goal in writing is to eventually start publishing. As such, this blog can also be considered to be part of my writing platform. It will show readers how I write, what my voice is, and all that. 　 I am also keeping it beca...

We live in a day and age where labelling yourself as a geek is considered cool. Now, this isn't going to be a post of my complaining about twoo geeks and wannabes. Honestly, I think it's fantastic and wish it was like that in the 80s and 90s, my younger years might have been easier. 　 However, "geek" covers a large assortment of things. You can just like Marvel movies and call yourself a geek. Or you might have meticulous replicas of every Enterprise to cruise across a television or movie screen and call yourself a geek. 　 This begs the question: what kind of geek am I? 　 First and foremost, let me say that I can probably put a lot of my geekiness at the feet of either C.S. Lewis or Walt Disney. Lewis was my gateway into the fantasy genre at an early age, though I don't remember how old I was when I first read a Narnia book. Six or seven. But I was both six and seven, as my birthday fell in this week, when I first went to Walt Disney World. Epcot ha...

Welcome to my little corner of the internet. 　 My name is Jennifer, as you may have gathered already, and I am at the time of writing this, a 43 year old blind woman living on the east coast of Canada. Professionally, I am a registered massage therapist and recreationally a writer, though up until recently I haven't been writing as much as I wanted to, or at all. 　 Most people are curious about the blind thing. To be precise, I have zero vision in my right eye, and light perception in my left along with the ability to see colour and sometimes motion if the light is just right. Too dark, and obviously I get nothing, but that also happens if it's too bright. I haven't always had this level of vision. In fact I have both had much more and much less, running the gamut from 20/80 (almost enough to drive) to utter darkness, though the right eye has been blind since roughly age five or six. I'm of the mindset that I don't focus on what I've lost, but rathe...