Quick. How many people do you need for a team at a Braille Game? Six, of course. One for each dot in a Braille cell. Whitney and I learned that, among many, many other things, at our very first ever Braille Games competition in Milwaukee last Friday. A story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel explains: Teams […]

My husband Mike does the Facebook thing, and earlier this week he posted a link to a collection of portraits of people who can’t see there. That post of his got so many comments that I thought maybe my blog would be a good place to explain how we met the photographer. A couple years ago I […]

Mike and I were invited to a costume ball for Mardi Gras last month, and when I found out the theme of the party was “Hollywood” I asked my young friend Nicole Dotto to help with my costume. Nicole and I met as volunteers for Sit Stay Read here in Chicago. She runs a vintage […]