School Library Journal likes us! School Library Journal likes us! School Library Journal likes us! School Library Journal likes us! What? You’ve never heard of the School Library Journal??? Well, you must not be a school librarian – or a children’s librarian – then. Forty thousand librarians, teachers and children’s book lovers subscribe to the […]

After posting a blog about using “the visual versus the visualized” when writing stories, I decided to expand the idea and submit it as a radio essay. The essay aired today, on Chicago Public Radio’s “848”show. Usually the radio essays I do for NPR and Chicago Public Radio go like this: I email them an […]

Winters were hard in the college town where we used to live. Urbana’s sidewalks were brick, and difficult to shovel. When it snowed, people walked in the street. Not a good option for a Seeing Eye dog. On days it snowed, Hanni and I were trapped inside. Winter is easier on us here in the […]

I lost the right to vote privately and anonymously in 1985. That’s the year I lost my sight. After that, I needed Mike to help me with a ballot. We’d squeeze into a voting booth – Mike, me and my Seeing Eye dog — and Mike would read the candidates aloud. I’d tell him who […]

    This Thursday at 7 pm I’ll be speaking at the public library in Oak park, Illinois. Oak park is the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway. I like to think that the Nobel Prize winner and I have a special bond. It’s not true, of course, but I like to think it. After all, Ernest and […]