Author Archives: Empish J. Thomas

 About Empish J. Thomas

Empish J. Thomas is writer/blogger who lost her vision due to uveitis. Her passions are reading audiobooks, listening to podcasts, and audio description. Visit Empish online and read her blog at www.empishthomas.com.

Archiving Stories of Blind People: More Than a Job, a Passion 

Posted on by
photo of peggy chong

What can you do with an interest that doesn’t fit a traditional career path? Historians, genealogists, researchers, and archivists are all used to describe people who collect and preserve history. But Peggy Chong prefers a different title: storyteller.  Since 2014, Peggy has been known as the Blind History Lady, sharing powerful and often overlooked stories about people who are […]

Blind Senior with Diabetes Gains Independence with CGM

Posted on by
Nancy Duncan wearing meta glasses

Nancy Duncan is a retired senior with diabetes. She was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2005 and was unsure of the cause.   “Relatives in my family had it, but people weren’t diagnosed back then,” Nancy said. They just said you had the sugars and that was it.”   Over the past 20 years, Nancy has learned how to manage her condition and advocate for herself. When she was […]

8 Strategies to Build Career Resilience with Vision Loss 

two men consulting in front of a Jupiter computer screen

Career resilience is a skill I have developed during nearly 30 years of working with vision loss. I began my career with low vision while working in corporate human resources. Later I lost my vision completely but continued working, eventually spending many years in the disability nonprofit community.  These experiences, along with the rapid changes in my vision, helped shape my […]

Older posts