When the packet of thank you notes from the fifth graders at St. Mary of the Lake School arrived in the mail, a light bulb went on over my head: take them along to my presentation at Northern Illinois University! The undergraduates in the class Whitney and I visited last week at NIU are studying […]

My niece Jen and her husband Brian are flying in from Orlando later this morning to stay with us over the weekend. You might remember these two from a post I wrote last year when my previous Seeing Eye dog, the heroic Harper, helped me officiate Jen and Brian’s wedding. Jen and Brian will be […]

Last fall I started teaching a second weekly memoir-writing class for senior citizens. Anna Perlberg is one of the students in that second class at Lincoln Park Village, and it’s been a treat to hear her unveil her stories out loud to us every Thursday. Anna’s husband Mark Perlberg co-founded the Poetry Center of Chicago […]

My loyal blog readers will remember the tribute to our dad that my sister Cheryl wrote as a guest post here a few months ago. She’s back today with this sweet essay about Flo on her 96th birthday. Honey Girls by Cheryl May Last year we celebrated Mom’s 95th birthday on the 95th floor of […]

Here’s my husband Mike Knezovich with a book review. Sometimes when I’m at an airport, a hotel lobby, walking down a city street, in an elevator, I watch the humans and think: Really, we’re all monkeys. I learned there is some truth to that glib observation a few years ago when I wrote a freelance […]