AS I SEE IT

An inspirational memoir of a man's rich life experiences without sight, but with an enormous sense of wonder in the world around him.

Bestselling author Tom Sullivan explores life without sight and finds it rich and rewarding. In fact,
he's gleaned a number of gifts from his "affliction," including these: I've never assessed my relationship with people according to the limits of labels or assumption I've enjoyed a world of senses available to all of us but almost never explored by the majority
of those of you with sight. I've made challenge my road to limitless opportunity. I've cultivated a clear sense of my own purpose. I've learned to treasure people, engaging with them as I find them, without expectation or any predisposition. I have also learned to be passionate, celebrating my own uniqueness through the expression of that passion. Along the way, I have found a powerful faith that has become my foundation for living and learned to love unconditionally through the interdependent relationship I share with my wife, Patty, and my children. Through insightful stories and emotive writing, Tom describes a life of fullness, not lack, as he's
made blindness a positive. For Tom Sullivan - author, actor, producer, singer, entertainer, and producer a life with blindness has still been a life with very few true limits. In this elegant, emotive exploration of the senses, he considers the different challenges he's faced and explains the wonder he carries because not in spite of his blindness. Tom Sullivan, known to many as an actor, singer, entertainer, author, and producer, lives and works by "Sullivan's Rules." Born prematurely in 1947, Tom was given too much oxygen while in an incubator. Though it saved his life, it cost him his eyesight. The "inconvenience" of being blind has never
kept Tom Sullivan from competing in a world where he realized that to be equal, for him, meant that he must be better.
Over the years he's made a number of guest -starring appearances in shows such as Designing Women, Highway to Heaven, Fame, M.A.S.H, Mork & Mindy, and WKRP in Cincinnati. But to create the characters and fulfill the role of a blind man on prime time, he also helped write and develop many of these stories. He gained popularity on daytime TV as a regular on Search For Tomorrow and was awarded the 1984 Governors Committee Award for his role. Tom has also been nominated twice for Emmy Awards. As a special correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America, Tom has become a regular morning fixture in millions of American homes. His touching and insightful reports give many that "you can do it" bit of inspiration to start their day. Whether it was snow skiing with his son in Colorado, or interviewing the legendary
Jack Nicklaus over a few holes of golf, his reporting is memorable. He is now writing and producing for television and film. He is a bestselling author of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books.