Last week we published a post here listing questions my young friend Ali had while planning a trip with her boyfriend Joe from her college campus to a Chicago jazz club last Sunday. They were celebrating in advance — the actual date of their anniversary is today, April 24, so lift a glass or cup […]
Hello from Champaign, Illinois! Whitney and I are doing our annual presentation for an animal sciences class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today, but this time, we’re adding a special video. From an email I sent to the teacher: Mike put a Hero GoPro (is that what they’re called?) on Whitney to videotape her […]
My young friend Alicia and her boyfriend Joe will celebrate their third anniversary this week by traveling on their own from Northern Illinois University to downtown Chicago for a romantic dinner and a night of live music at Andy’s Jazz Club on Hubbard Street. Ali and Joe are both blind, and while they’ve had experience […]
Everyone leaves your Seeing Eye dog alone. Teacher knows material first-hand. People listen to you. When post-lunch fatigue sets in, you can lean back, close your eyes, put your feet up on the desk and still listen. No dress code. When the heat gets too high in the room, you can strip down to your […]
I have a love/hate relationship with my computer. Don’t we all?! I keep thinking I’d love my computer more if I was more efficient at using it. So with my memoir-writing classes on break now, I signed up for this weeklong course at Second Sense, a fantastic non-profit in Chicago for people who are blind […]