OK, first things first—Beth’s new dog: She’s a black Lab, 22″ tall and she weighs 54 pounds Birthday: March 8, 2018 She’s Beth’s youngest and smallest dog to date. Her working name for public purposes remains Speedo for the foreseeable future. Beth says being back at The Seeing Eye is like taking piano lessons after […]

I wasn’t able to watch the impeachment hearings live, but I have seen selected highlights. Beth was able to listen to some morning testimony live, and she sort of helped me seek out things she thought were significant. In doing so, she had a take on it all I hadn’t expected: Regardless of the president’s […]

My mom taught school most of her adult life, only taking time off when I was born to get me to kindergarten–and then returning to the classroom,. I can tell you, it was not an 8-3 job. It wasn’t a 9-5 job, either. It was—maddeningly for my sister and me—a constantly on-call job. As in, […]

We live about three blocks from the ginormous Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue—the one associated with the 1968 Democratic Convention. Well, things are a lot more peaceful there these days, and we go there to work out—the health club sells memberships. A fair number of people from our neighborhood are also members. Beth swims there […]

Amid the inflamed political climate that is being deliberately sown, it’s easy to get so distracted that we’re never, ever discussing substantive issues. It’s so easy to get caught up in name-calling and labeling, instead of having respectful back and forth. And from what I’ve seen, either the Democratic Party and its constituents will do […]