Introduction

A Woman of Letters - This is defined as 'a woman who is devoted to literary and scholarly pursuits.' This describes me and I am starting this blog to share my voracious reading, my writing, my love of words and how they have impacted my life. Writing and reading are my life although I have many other interests. I love listening to classical music, cooking, knitting and travel.

I am also legally blind and have a beautiful golden retriever guide dog named Jay.

 The chocolate Labrador in the photo is my first guide dog Chocolat who is now 14 years and eight months old.

I am writing my memoir, a story of adoption, control, loss, emotional abuse and lost children. It is very difficult to research and write so for light relief I write travel stories for a travel website, stories about my dogs and family stories. I retired in February determined to write my story to help and support others in a similar situation.

You may be wondering how I read. I have a small personal talking book machine onto which I download books from the Blind Foundation. I have a kindle with over 400 unread books on it and with a large font can read using this. I also read books and magazines using a special app called Booklink. When I discovered I was losing my sight my biggest fear was not being able to read, this has been allayed and I now read even more widely and deeply.

My plan for this blog is to discuss books, writing, all literary pursuits and include snippets of my other interests. This is for women of words and letters.