Blind Chance: David Faucheux's Audio Web Log
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Memoir-writing
Book: To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come, by Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford RC 41038
Book: Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us, by Elizabeth Stone RC 27654
Web sites:
http://www.iprimus.ca/~pjduane/JournalMemoirWriting.htm
www.tstar.net/~china/Nonfiction/
http://www.storycircle.org/owlcircle/
Monday, January 31, 2005
The blind-hostile DMV: Blind pedestrian safety questions scarce on drivers tests
If the ideas mentioned in the following book were utilized with a greater degree of frequency by urban planners, perhaps, more communities would be more pedestrian friendly thus benefiting both blind and sighted alike!
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, RC 52208, by Andres Duany and others.
Three planners offer ways to "once again build and inhabit places worth caring about." They use examples of old and new communities (including two revitalized by their firm) to explain the differences between suburban sprawl and traditional neighborhoods. Discusses how many aspects that make older communities more livable are often against code.
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Coming to My Senses: An enjoyable VI-related book
Coming to My Senses, RC 56381, by Pam Rice
Details from Amazon
To learn more about The Talking Book Program mentioned in my blog, visit www.loc.gov/nls.

