I was delighted when Tammy Duckworth won last week’s election: it means she’ll  serve as senator here in Illinois for six more years. Senator Duckworth has a long career serving her country, and when it comes to disability access, she is an expert: she served in Iraq and lost both legs when a rocket-propelled grenade […]

Good information is easier to get than ever, if you’re willing to put in the effort to separate the wheat from the chaff. But if you’re not, bad information is everywhere. Case in point: This past Saturday we took a Lyft home after visiting with family in the suburbs. The driver was affable, of Korean […]

The circus that American politics has become recalls one of my favorite George Carlin quotes: “When you’re born into this world, you get tickets to the freak show. If you’re born in America, you get front row seats.” But a funny thing has happened over the past two years. The Biden administration has accomplished a […]

Yesterday, we celebrated the Fourth of July on the third of July: We traveled to Glen Ellyn Illinois and spent the afternoon with lovely friends in one of their lovely backyards. We noshed and drank, we talked SCOTUS (and then drank some more) and laughed a lot. In spite of SCOTUS. We took the Metra […]

The permutations of the circumstances around women’s pregnancies are infinite. I can only speak of Beth’s. In 1985, shortly after we learned that Beth wouldn’t ever see again, she was enrolled at the Illinois Visually Handicapped Institute, later to be nicknamed “Braille Jail” by Beth. Unfortunately, that moniker is less of an exaggeration than you […]