Archive for the “travel” Category

This new hybrid health club doesn't cost a penny

April 5, 20127 CommentsPosted in blindness, travel, Uncategorized, visiting schools

Whitney and I were supposed to take a train to visit St. John’s School in Western Springs yesterday morning. Good thing we didn’t! April 4, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Emergency crews responded to a track fire near Chicago’s Union Station Wednesday morning. According to ABC7’s Roz Varon, traffic was jammed near Canal and Jackson because […]

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Missing: 30 million words

March 18, 201214 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, Blogroll, Braille, travel, Uncategorized, visiting schools, Writing for Children

As a kid, spending three days with a bunch of schoolteachers would have sounded like the ultimate form of punishment. I guess wisdom really does come with age — when the Illinois Reading Council contacted me last Fall to see if I’d be interested in coming to their annual conference and spend time with thousands […]

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Puppy love

March 14, 201211 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, Braille, parenting a child with special needs, travel, Uncategorized, visiting schools, Writing for Children

On Monday morning Whitney and I caught a commuter train to Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region to visit the Lily Garden Child Care Center, a preschool and child care program that mixes classes up with kids with and without disabilities. The center is working on a new project this year that features […]

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Love your library, love your librarians

February 28, 20128 CommentsPosted in blindness, Mike Knezovich, technology for people who are blind, travel, Uncategorized, visiting libraries, writing

And now, some updates on librarians I admire who are marking the end of “Love Your Library” month by making big transitions. Karen Keninger. Karen is my fellow Seeing Eye graduate who is leaving her position as director of the Iowa Department for the Blind to become Director of the National Library Service for the […]

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