A small dog yipped and lunged at wonderful Whitney the Seeing Eye dog when we checked in at Midway Airport for our flight to New England last month. No one got hurt in the run-in, but it was alarming. When Mike shared some of the highlights of that trip in his Mondays with Mike post […]
The questions Robin Sitten and I got from our audience at the Perkins School for the Blind Thursday sure were thought-provoking. Here’s a sampling: Did you write your memoir Long Time, No See as therapy, or did you write it to share your journey with others? The people who sign up for your memoir classes, […]
Mike, Whitney the Seeing Eye dog and I are heading to New England this week to meet the narrator who read the audible.com version of Writing Out Loud. Robin Sitten and I have corresponded via email, we follow each other on twitter, and of course I know her voice — I’ve listened to her sensational […]
Knowing that every parent wants their children to grow up healthy and happy, it dawns on me now that it must have been hard on my mother (I called her by her first name, Flo) to take it all in when I lost my sight. I was 26 years old then. She was 69, and […]
Hello from the Amodt Inn, the lovely Orlando home of my sister Marilee and her husband Rick Amodt — just got back from giving a short presentation at their granddaughter’s preschool. Experience has taught me that preschoolers have a hard time grasping what blindness is (much less formulating questions about it), but who could resist […]