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Hosting Myself Out of a Party
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Hosting Myself Out of a Party

What if you hosted a party and nobody came? Or worse, only one person came, so you had to put on a brave face for hours until the event was over and you could have a good, long cry?

It would be damn tempting to never have a party again. Or at least not a Soulard Mardi Gras parade pre-party.

But at some point during the long year between one Lent and the next, it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, there was another perspective on why people who had partied with me in the past didn’t return.

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Translating the Sights of the Holidays for Those with Vision Impairments
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Translating the Sights of the Holidays for Those with Vision Impairments

When my son was diagnosed with red-green colorblindness as a teenager in 2019, fall colors were at their height. I suddenly understood why he had always been meh about the changing leaves—unless they happened to be vibrant yellow. In the past three years, I’ve learned a great deal about my son’s visual experiences, and I’m better (but nowhere near perfect) at skipping past colors and identifying the many other sensory delights during the winter holidays.

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