
Christopher T. Monnette
About Author
I’m in my second act in life — not stepping back, but moving forward in a deliberate new direction as a full-time author and storyteller.
I explore life’s changes, challenges, and second chances.
In 2013, my life took an unexpected turn when I was diagnosed with macular degeneration, a progressive condition that slowly robbed me of my central vision. Losing the ability to recognize a loved one’s face was devastating, but the greater surprise came in discovering how vulnerability could reshape the way I see the world.
Writing became my lifeline and my way to see differently — both literally and figuratively.
That journey became Seeing Clearly: A Memoir of Vision Loss, Emotional Blindness, and Finding My True Self (2022), available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes. Today, I’m working on my debut novel, Begin Again, and publishing regular blog posts on resilience, reinvention, and spiritual philosophy here on my site.
Changing the way I see has forced me to rethink everything — how we live, what we value, and what connects us. Whether I’m wrestling with political questions, spiritual ideas, or personal emotions, I’m driven by the search for truth.
As organizational psychologist and bestselling author Adam Grant writes in Think Again, “It rarely serves us well to find out we were wrong later.” For me, writing is how I think again in the moment — a way to challenge my assumptions, discover what I’ve missed, and share life, from a new perspective.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"