Archive for the “radio” Category

Seeing a bigger picture

September 28, 20112 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, radio, technology for people who are blind, travel, Uncategorized

Harper and I head to Madison, Wisconsin today, and one of the things we’ll be doing there is this: “The Lindbergh Lectures” Thursday, September 29 12:00 – 12:50 PM Room 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building “Seeing a Bigger Picture” Beth Finke NPR commentator, Teacher and Journalist Author of “Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound” Abstract: Thanks […]

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I'm so proud

September 8, 20113 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, Mike Knezovich, radio, Uncategorized

Over 50 is where it’s at, man. This excerpt from a Chicago Sun Times review of the Soul Train concert I went to Monday night explains why: Slightly-more-than-middle-aged women swooned to Marshall Thompson and the Chi-Lites’ “Oh Girl” and “Have You Seen Her,” no doubt knocked out by the trio’s sartorial splendor of pumpkin-colored suits […]

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Okay, here's how it is

September 3, 201118 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, Mike Knezovich, parenting a child with special needs, radio, Uncategorized

It’s our son’s birthday! Gus is, gasp, twenty-five years old today. Seems a fitting occasion to dust off one of the first essays I wrote and recorded for National Public Radio: Commentator Beth Finke describes the struggle of placing her developmentally disabled son into a group home and the unexpected relief it’s brought both of […]

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Just in time for Soul Train

September 1, 201125 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, Flo, radio, Uncategorized

Sound the trumpets! The doc says I can retire the clodhoppers!! No restrictions! I can walk long distances, swim, ride the tandem, even hop on the train to Elmhurst to visit Flo. How to celebrate my healing? That’s easy. I’m gonna strap on my dancin’ shoes, strut down to Millennium Park and shake my groove […]

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