At home, I ran through the house to stand on the back porch looking north at the Ball Brothers factory, hundreds of feet away. I …

In January 1961, my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Singer, recognized that I needed glasses from watching me squinting constantly. She sent a note home, but my …

I didn’t get to use this technique until I was 25. I was working on my doctorate, and I was teaching part-time at a community …

I didn’t start wearing glasses until I was a junior in college. I probably needed them for a year before that, but I always made …

My true anecdote is this. During the day, I went to the store and bought several items. Included with them was a small square barcode …

Writing without my glasses I can see the blue lines, the white spaces, but the words are blurred, though my pen knows these familiar tracks …