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Jay Hardwig

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JAY HARDWIG is a certified teacher for the visually impaired who has worked with children with blindness and low vision for more than twenty years. He has taught at public schools throughout Texas and North Carolina, adding a Master’s degree in Special Education and certification as an Orientation & Mobility instructor in 2011. His writing credits include scores of essays, features, and short fiction published in periodicals ranging from The Austin Chronicle to Blue Ridge Outdoors to Bridal Guide. He currently works for Buncombe County Schools and IFB Solutions, where he directs summer camps for children with vision loss. When not taking blind kids ziplining, he reads, writes, and plays barrelhouse piano with his friends and family in Ashe ...more

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Confessions of a Reluctant Pitchman

When I started this blog, I had a tidy little vision: twelve posts in twelve months, leading up to the publication of my book.

A year of gems, spilled on the page for your entertainment and edification. What a lark!

I didn’t write twelve months, and I didn’t reach twelve posts, but that’s hardly a shame. There are plenty of words in this blog, and the entertainment and edification aspects were o

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