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 […]
We’re off to Champaign this afternoon, and a surprise awaits Hanni when we arrive. Our friend Brad is picking us up at the train station, taking Hanni to his house and hosting her very first slumber party. Brad is one of the folks interested in adopting Hanni when she retires, and we thought it might […]
“How much does Hanni weigh?” That was the first question asked after our presentation at Jackson Middle School in Orlando Friday. Not a bad question, really. Just one I hadn’t heard after any of the talks I’d given before. Seems every time we visit a school, one of the kids in the audience comes up […]
It’s Hanni’s Golden Birthday today — she’s 8 years old on the 8th of February. We are celebrating Hanni’s birth, of course. But I gotta admit: while Hanni spends the day playing around and giving me paws, she’s giving me that other sort of pause, too. In the “frequently asked questions” section of the Seeing […]