My young friend Alicia and her boyfriend Joe will celebrate their third anniversary this week by traveling on their own from Northern Illinois University to downtown Chicago for a romantic dinner and a night of live music at Andy’s Jazz Club on Hubbard Street. Ali and Joe are both blind, and while they’ve had experience […]

Mike, Whitney and I flew into La Guardia last Tuesday evening. The next day, New York City schools were closed due to snow. The next day, schools on Long Island were closed, too, so our Thursday visit to Rall Elementary School was cancelled. Eyebrows up! Whitney and I finally outlasted Mother Nature on Friday. We spent […]

Greetings from New York City! I’m speaking at some elementary schools in Lindenhurst on Long Island tomorrow and Friday, but Whitney, Mike and I flew in yesterday to spend a couple days in Manhattan first. We booked a hotel room two doors down from our dear friends Benita and Henry on the Upper West Side, […]

Click on the video to take a walk with Beth from Whitney’s point of view. There’s a lot of motion, so be careful if you’re prone to seasickness. I hope you’ll read the post, too–think of it as the director’s notes:) Beth’s on her fourth Seeing Eye dog now, and I’ve marveled at and, really, […]

Annelore is one of four writers in the memoir class I lead at the Chicago Cultural Center who was born in a foreign country. She met her American husband Roy in the small town they both worked in on the Czech border, and the two of them moved to his hometown in North Dakota 55 […]