Archive for November, 2016

Voting early in Wrigleyville

November 3, 201617 CommentsPosted in baseball, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guest blog, memoir writing, politics, Uncategorized, writing

This week I asked the writers in my memoir classes to write a letter to past or future generations about how they’re feeling now, a week before the 2016 presidential election. Sharon Kramer lives near Wrigleyville, and I thought this piece she wrote about voting early last Sunday while Cub fans were gathering for the […]

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"Most of us aren’t fortunate enough to have a spouse named Mike" — my op-ed piece in the New York Daily News

November 2, 201627 CommentsPosted in blindness, politics, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

Hey! An op-ed piece I wrote was published Monday in the New York Daily News, and much to my happy surprise, they didn’t edit out my favorite line of the whole thing: “Most of us aren’t fortunate enough to have a spouse named Mike.” (I can just imagine Cub fans across the country sighing in […]

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