Archive for the “blindness” Category

Mondays with Mike: The seven-year itch

June 10, 201932 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, Mike Knezovich, Mondays with Mike, Seeing Eye dogs, travel

It seems like only yesterday: Beth’s Seeing Eye dog Harper saved them both from being run over at an intersection a couple blocks from home. Harper yanked Beth out of harm’s way—so hard that she fell to the pavement and that the sturdy metal harness snapped. It was a harrowing experience, but afterward Beth and Harper […]

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Lyft and Uber may have gone public, but that doesn’t mean they have to pick up people with disabilities

May 11, 201910 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, politics, Seeing Eye dogs, travel

Back in 2014 the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed piece I wrote that was titled “Should ride-sharing services adhere to the Americans with Disabilities Act?” Five years have passed, and Lyft and Uber still claim they don’t have to follow ADA guidelines. A story in Politico last week reports that Lyft is fighting a federal […]

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And Now for Something Completely Different: Questions from College Students

April 28, 20195 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, public speaking, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, technology for people who are blind, travel, visiting schools

Lucky us! In the past ten days Whitney the Seeing Eye dog and I have had the privilege of visiting nine different classrooms at five different elementary schools. Somehow, some way, we also managed to wedge a visit to a college classroom in the midst of all those visits to third-graders –last Tuesday we gave […]

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