One of the reasons I was able to sound so well-informed during my short radio interview last month about potential changes to the Air Carrier Access Act was because I’d been hard at work on an article about that very thing for The Bark magazine. Editors there liked what I wrote, and now you can read my article Viewpoint: Traveling While Blind in the Summer 2018 issue.
In this Bark piece I go into great detail about each task a guide dog does to get a person who can’t see from home to an airport, through security to the gate, down the jetway and onto a plane. Which is exactly what Whitney will be doing for me this afternoon: we’re off to the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference today!
Whitney knows what to do on an airplane.
Having work published in Bark puts me in extremely good company: the magazine’s impeccable pedigree includes publishing many of today’s most acclaimed authors. Like Ann Patchett, Augusten Burroughs, Rick Bass, Amy Hempel, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver. From the magazine’s web site:
Bark is the magazine of modern dog culture—it speaks to the serious dog enthusiast. Bark is the indispensable guide to life with dogs, showing readers how to live smartly and rewardingly with their canine companions.
When The Bark first came out in 1997 it was just a newsletter in Berkeley, California. The magazine quickly grew into a glossy award-winning publication that now boasts more than 250,000 readers. I’ve had a few stories published in the four-color “glossy award-winning” version of The Bark before, but it’s been a while. Sure feels good to be back, and the honor comes just in time — Now I’ll be able to claim to all the new writers I meet at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference that I write for a magazine that also publishes work by Ann Patchett.
But first things first. Off to the airport.
Stay clear of fire and have a safe, enlightening conference.
Nancy Faust
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