As promised, here’s the happy ending to Ali Krage’s post about applying for a part-time job at Northern Illinois University. Before reading this one, though, be sure to catch Part 1. by Alicia Krage The interview questions were precisely the ones my parents had asked when we were practicing. I had a question I wanted […]

Still haven’t seen the movie – or a single episode on television – but after meeting Brendan Coyle, a.k.a. Mr. Bates at Goodman Theater earlier this year, I guess I just can’t get enough of seeing actors from Downton Abbey live on stage! When I signed up for the touch tour of “The King’s Speech” […]

You might recall a post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote in 2016 explaining how college students who are blind can figure out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Well, she figured it out! Three years later, Ali is in her final semester at Northern Illinois University and landed a […]

Happy October! The school year is back in full swing, and yesterday morning my friend Jamie drove Seeing Eye dog Whitney and me to Deerfield, a suburb of Chicago, to talk with third graders at Kipling Elementary School. We were there as part of Educating Outside The Lines, a disability awareness program that uses a […]

Heads up to nearby friends and neighbors: if you see me walking around our Printers Row neighborhood with an invisible dog tomorrow, don’t call the authorities. I haven’t lost my marbles. Not yet. No need to worry about the stranger you’ll see holding the front of Whitney’s empty rectangular harness and leading me around, either. […]