Brucie, I have read those Kingsolver, and also "The Poisonwood Bible" ... love the way the disabled girl plays with language, spelling things backwards, etc. :)

Well, life gave me a combination of blindness and patience and humility (I hope) :) and that is it. Never known anything other than blindness, so can't complain, except when it comes to folks not wanting to understand or condescending. (No one here, of course.) :)

Teresa