Have you read the first part of Ali’s Story? Check it out! My parents drove me to Chicago Midway airport for my flight. I had been a little nervous that morning, but once I realized weather wasn’t going to stop me, excitement took over. The anxiety about my first time flying alone started to fade, […]

So many of you were impressed with the post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote way back in 2016 when she was starting at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and figuring out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Ali sure mastered that very well – she graduated from NIU in […]

Okay. Only one dog-related reference in this post. Honest. I promise. Because here’s the thing. We are wayyyy overdue on news about Wanda Bridgeforth. If you’ve followed our Safe & Sound blog for a while, you know who Wanda Bridgeforth is: she’s witty, she’s talented, she’s 98 years old, she’s been attending the memoir-writing class […]

It’s only been three days since Mike met Whitney my new dog and me at O’Hare, and in that short time my new 53-pound bouncing bundle of Labrador Retriever energy has successfully guided me to: The Chicago Cultural Center (to prepare for our walk there Wednesday to lead a memoir-writing class) Grail Café (for a […]

Editor’s note: Mornings at the Seeing Eye start with a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call: Ttrainers blast music through the intercom system to make sure we’re out of bed feeding our dogs and taking them outside to “empty.” Here’s a list of some of the more memorable selections from the January 2020 class: Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t […]