Archive for the “politics” Category

Mondays with Mike: Long time coming, still not there

January 21, 20193 CommentsPosted in Mike Knezovich, Mondays with Mike, politics

This past Thursday three Chicago Police Officers, who had clearly lied in the interest of their fellow officer Jason Van Dyke, were acquitted on all counts. I’ve bounced between furious, disappointed, and plain sad since then. That kind of behavior—the same kind that enables horrific behavior in other institutions like the Catholic Church, Penn State, […]

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Benefits of Teaching Memoir: Amazing stories

December 30, 201817 CommentsPosted in careers/jobs for people who are blind, guest blog, memoir writing, politics, teaching memoir, writing prompts

The memoir-writing classes I lead are all on break now, so I have time to file through essays they wrote for our last six-week session and choose some to share with readers here. At Halloween I asked writers in my class at The Admiral at the Lake to use 500 words to answer the question […]

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Breaking buttons, burning bras

December 13, 20187 CommentsPosted in careers/jobs for people who are blind, guest blog, politics, writing prompts

The essays writers bring to our weekly memoir-writing classes teach me a lot about history, geography, and civil rights. Gabriela Freese and her twin sister grew up in South America — their parents had emigrated from Germany to Paraguay during the European depression after World War I. “I grew up in a German household,” she […]

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Thanks to 41

December 2, 20189 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, parenting a child with special needs, politics, technology for people who are blind, writing

After President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday, the news has been full of stories about his service during World War II, his responsibilities for the Persian Gulf War, his inabilities to rally the economy during his four years in office, and his 1992 loss to Bill Clinton. One big story missing in all that? […]

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