A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
Each year I try to read five books that are considered to be classics. Usually I try to find books I haven’t read before, or some that I may have read when I was young but honestly can’t remember. When I was a teenager I went through a phase of reading the classics. I thought …
Back in 2020 I realized that I wasn’t reading the non-fiction books in my collection. And yet I seemed to be accumulating them at an alarming rate, mostly due to friends and colleagues writing books, and through various seminars and summits I was attending online. Back then I set the intention of reading at least …
Over the years it has become important for me to read books that allow me to better understand the experiences of people whose backgrounds differ from my own. I have come to appreciate the wealth of voices that are available in both the fiction and non-fiction spaces. I am fascinated by what I can learn …
It is December and many of us have already started to look forward to the holiday season. As part of my wrap-up of 2025, my next few blog posts will be a review of books I’ve read this year. Today I’ll be focusing on books written by authors from the continent of Africa. We have …
Note from Lois: This week I’m thrilled to have a guest post written by Emilie Brown from the company Continual Engine. I love receiving requests to share relevant articles from others in the same field that I think will be of value to my readers. When I chatted to Emilie and learned a little about …
I first started blogging ten years ago. In that time, I’ve created more than 530 blogs in which I’ve shared stories about my life and work. Sadly, it is a reality of my world that my blog is the first thing to be sacrificed if I’m pushed for time over a given week. Perhaps it …
After my somewhat sobering review of the past year, I wanted to spotlight one area of my work in which I have achieved what I set out to this year, that of my podcast, A Different Way of Seeing. I try to release an episode of the show every two weeks, or rather twice each …
Today’s post starts with a memory, best explained in an extract from my bestselling memoir A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman’s Journey of Living an ‘Ordinary’ Life in an Extraordinary Way. “It was the evening of my 22nd birthday —10 months since I had been declared blind. We were sitting in the lounge …
Last time I told you I was scheduled for an angiogram to check my heart health as my next step towards my kidney transplant. Following the procedure, the main thing to know is that I am still on track for the transplant operation. Well, mostly on track as I will have to wait six months …
One of the final tests I need to go through before we can be approved for a kidney transplant is an angiogram. From what I understand, an angiogram is necessary to confirm that my heart is strong enough to undergo the rigours of the transplant process well. While I haven’t experienced any heart problems my …