If you enjoy the following excerpt from my newest book, The Blind Visionary, which I co-authored with Virginia Jacko, president & CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, you’ll want to order your copy of the book when it comes out in mid-December.

This excerpt is from The Blind Visionary, “Part Two – The Miami Lighthouse:  Personal and Professional Rebirth”.

One Saturday, when I was back at my condo in Miami, Tracker and I were walking along my condo property looking onto Biscayne Bay.  You know, your guide dog is trained to lead you when the harness is on.  I was just bending over to put the harness on Tracker when,  unknown to me, as I found out later from a security guard, a nanny came along  with a baby buggy and cut between Tracker and the grass where he was finishing doing his thing.  When I bent over to put the harness on, Tracker stepped to the side to let the nanny and buggy pass between the grass and him; this meant I also stepped to the right and immediately realized my right foot was not on the ground but,  like in slow motion, I was on my way into the Bay.  I’d never seen Biscayne Bay, of course, and naturally I never thought about whether the tide was out or in.  That’s wasn’t a small thing, since at low tide the drop would have been about twenty feet – onto cement-like sand and rock.