Archive for the “technology for people who are blind” Category

What Do I Do When All the Memoir-Writing Classes I Lead are on Break?

December 19, 202228 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, technology for people who are blind, visiting schools, writing, Writing for Children

I sure have been busy lately. But really? who hasn’t been?! My busy-ness doesn’t have much to do with the holidays, though. I’ve been busy writing, and it’s making me feel good! Let me explain. After decades and decades of querying magazines about story ideas, pleading with agents to give my latest manuscript a read, […]

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Our Senator Earned her Seat in Congress

November 17, 20224 CommentsPosted in blindness, Blogroll, Mike Knezovich, politics, technology for people who are blind

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 […]

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Questions Kids Ask: He Can Play Football, Basketball and Fortnight, but…

April 22, 202212 CommentsPosted in blindness, public speaking, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, technology for people who are blind

Yesterday our friend Ruth drove Luna and me to Highwood, Illinois to visit third graders at Oak Terrace Elementary, a school that participates in an Educating Outside the Lines Disability Awareness Week program. Every day that week someone with a disability comes to talk with them about their disability and the “helper tools” that let […]

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Questions Kids Ask: With Answers This Time

March 12, 20228 CommentsPosted in blindness, book tour, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guide dogs, Mike Knezovich, questions kids ask, technology for people who are blind, travel, visiting libraries, visiting schools, Writing for Children

When the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) selected Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound as the winner of its Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award back in 2008, my sisters accompanied my second Seeing Eye dog Hanni and me to the American Library Association convention in Anaheim to receive the award. […]

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