Madison, MS: Sandpiper Reflections (pub: August 2021)

Paperback. Signed.

“Looking back, I am astonished at the extent of our travels. Don was working full-time as a surgical technician in the largest military hospital in Europe ... We lived ‘on the economy’ in a small apartment ... After rent, utilities, groceries, incidentals, and gasoline, there wasn’t much left at the end of the month. But we tried to put aside a little money for travel.” —A Year Long Honeymoon

Karen Brown’s first career was as a high school English teacher beginning in Merritt Island Florida in 1969. After losing her vision about age 25 she and her husband Don moved to Mississippi. Their son Paul was born in 1976. Once he was in school, she worked in services for the blind as a client advocate in the Client Assistance Program for 15 years. She was appointed the Director of the Addie McBryde Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Jackson, MS in 2001. She and her husband Don have been married 53 years, are retired, and live in Madison, Mississippi. Karen has published two books. Sandpiper: My Journey with Sight and Blindness was published in 2016. Her second book about her three Seeing Eye Dogs, Go With Your Dog was published in 2019.