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Questions Kids Ask: Did Anything Scary Ever Happen to You?

January 28, 20244 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, memoir writing, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, teaching memoir, visiting schools, writing, Writing for Children

Two days ago our friend Ruth drove my Seeing Eye dog Luna and me to the Admiral At the Lake, a retirement community where I lead memoir-writing classes every Wednesday. I wasn’t there this time to lead a writing class, though: we were there to answer questions from third-graders who attend Goudy Elementary, a Public […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Does Your Dog Understand English?

May 5, 20238 CommentsPosted in book tour, guide dogs, public speaking, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools, Writing for Children

Last Friday Luna and I presented a special program for third-graders from a school where more than half the students are children of immigrants. Goudy Elementary is located so close to The Admiral at the Lake (a retirement community where I lead weekly memoir-writing classes) that they can walk there. They do exactly that every […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Do you pick your clothes at random?

April 22, 20234 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools

This past Tuesday Seeing Eye dog Luna and I had the honor of visiting third-graders at Oak Terrace Elementary school in Highwood, Illinois to talk about what it’s like to be blind and how service dogs help us get around. Oak Terrace is a Spanish dual language school: students there are provided daily instruction in […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Does it Hurt to be Blind?

November 22, 202216 CommentsPosted in blindness, Braille, guide dogs, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, travel, visiting schools, writing, Writing for Children

One week ago today I was at Sterling Park Elementary, a dual-language school in Casselberry, Florida giving a presentation to third graders. My eight-year-old great-niece Toots goes to that school, and my sister Cheryl and I had flown from Chicago to Florida a few days earlier to see Toots in a children’s theater performance of […]

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Highland Park

July 6, 202212 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools

You know those “Questions Kids Ask” lists I post here after visiting third-grade classrooms with Luna? Those visits are arranged by a disability awareness program called “Educating Outside the Lines,” and every one of the schools they have me visit is located in…Highland Park, Illinois. ”Is your dog blind, too?” they ask. “Is it scary […]

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