A friend emailed me after last summer’s Democratic National Convention to let me know how much I look like (what was then) the future First Lady. The blog post I wrote about that — titled Do I Look Like Michelle Obama? — garnered many, many replies. Most comments said no. Some weren’t sure what to […]

Mike, Hanni and I just got back from a wonderful warm weekend in New Orleans. Dog Fancy Magazine asked me to write a story for their Canine Traveler section, and if all goes well my piece about New Orleans will appear in the upcoming March edition. The Canine Traveler section is based loosely on those […]

<If you read my post last March about the first blind man to become governor of New York, you know I’m a David Paterson fan. So when Saturday Night Live decided to do a skit a few weeks ago making fun of Governor Paterson’s blindness, I was disappointed. A confession: I suffer “delusions of grandeur.” […]

Ever since I heard last Sunday’s New York Times article, For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t (I listened to it online via my supercool talking computer, of course) I’ve been telling friends it’s one of the best articles I’ve ever read about technology for the blind. Only now do I realize […]

I came home, checked our answering machine. There it was. A message from my nephew. The message was alarming. Not because of what Robbie said. Just that he called me!   My extended family lives all over the country. We consider ourselves “close.” But we rarely, if ever, phone each other. We email. We send […]