While Harper and I were giving an evening presentation at Door County Community Center in Wisconsin last Tuesday night, it started snowing. The next morning, there was 15 inches of snow on the ground. I tuned in to the local AM radio station and learned Door County has an army of 35 snow plows. Only […]

I was lucky enough to be home this afternoon to hear Terry Gross play an excerpt from her 1986 Fresh Air interview with George Shearing. The jazz piano great died yesterday. He was 91. Shearing was born blind. When Terry Gross asked him if his piano teachers thought a blind person could learn to play, […]

Talk about being at the right place at the right time! We landed in New Orleans late Saturday night, and we were scheduled to fly home after my presentation at the New Orleans Public Library (Milton H Latter Branch) tomorrow. But poor me, we may have to stay a few more days. From a National […]

Note: If you link to WBEZ to listen to the piece, it’s a little confusing. Use this link, and then just wait, don’t click anything–the right piece should start playing. Don’t pay attention to the playlist that may appear. A longer version of this blog post aired on Chicago Public Radio November 24. I don’t […]

During our Wisconsin Public Radio interview Wednesday my fellow guest Jay Martin happened to mention that he’d been in the assistive technology (AT) field for 11 years. AT is a relatively new field, so 11 years makes Jay somewhat of a pioneer. Jay walked Hanni and me to the University of Wisconsin Union after our […]