Here’s an update on some of the women I’ve mentioned in recent blog posts. Flo saw a nurse at her post-operative visit Thursday (the wonderful Janet drove her, of course!) and everything looks good. Her wounds are healing well, and (most important to Flo) some of the hair on her head is already starting to […]

All your positive comments to my post about Nancy Faust Day at White Sox Park made me think. Hey, maybe the Chicago Tribune would like to publish a blind woman’s view on Nancy Faust’s departure. After rewriting it a bit, I sent the piece off to the Tribune along with a photo of Hanni, me […]

Back in 1985, a social worker predicted my first couple years of blindness would be like going through adolescence all over again. “It’ll be just like you’re a teenager,” she said. “You’ll be worried about how you look, and you’ll do everything you can to fit in with your friends.” She told me to be […]

If someone told you they were going to a disability culture cabaret, would you know what the heck they were talking about? I sure didn’t. Still don’t, really. Guess I’ll find out this Friday, though – I agreed to perform in one!Here’s a description from the Chicago Amplified page on Chicago Public Radio’s web site: […]

Sox fans will miss you Nancy, and so will MLB.   My visit to White Sox Park tomorrow is going to be bittersweet. Not because of the team – they actually did better than I expected this year. It’s because of the organist. This is Nancy Faust’s last year at the pipe organ, and tomorrow’s […]