The Earlobe Expert

My Aunt Connie read the words to the Cowboy Dan book so often that by age three, I knew them by heart. Aunt Connie was legally blind and one of the happiest and upbeat people that I knew.

For quite some time Connie was in the hospital more than she was out. She had a total of four brain surgeries as a child. This made her strong and stubborn. The doctors would send her home to die but she refused. Instead, she talks like a beatnik and lives with pizazz!

Auntie Connie is my favorite baby sitter. She makes me feel like everything I say is funny or smart. We read and play games and tell stories. She likes to feel my face and tells me that she can see better with her hands than she can with her eyes. I wish I had a super power like that.

​She especially enjoys feeling my ears and goes on and on about my amazing ear lobes. I really hadn’t paid much attention to my ear lobes but the next time I am near a mirror, I took a closer look. I don’t see anything great or interesting or different about them. I shrug and take her word for it. If an ear lobe expert says I have nice ones, I have to believe her and add that to the things I can feel proud of.