I laughed out loud years ago when Myrna (a writer in one of the classes I lead for The Village Chicago) told me she was taking a class to learn how to fall. Really? Who needs lessons? I do that naturally! Myrna’s class started making more sense in 2015, when I fell and broke bones […]

A lot of folks who read my Love Letter to Cultural Arts post last week about the panel I was on at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium asked me to write about the answers we gave to the questions provided. Your wish is my command, but first, a review. Last Tuesday I sat on a panel at Chicago’s […]

This Tuesday afternoon I’ll be sitting on a panel at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium with a theater director, a mother of three school-aged children, and a lawyer. Theater director Brian Balcom uses a wheelchair, one of Laurie Viets’ children is on the autism spectrum, attorney Rachel Arfa is profoundly deaf and uses bilateral cochlear implants to […]

Wednesday’s guest post by Ali Krage explained how she and her boyfriend make their way to their favorite movie theater, now she’s back to tell you how they liked the show! by Alicia Krage We’d arrived very early at the theater, so we had time to sit in our seats, talk for a while and […]

I met today’s guest blogger Ali Krage at a “low-vision conference” in 2004. “I’m blind like you and I can read Braille and I go to the same school my twin sister goes to, but she can see, can you give me your email address? We can be pen pals!” Who could refuse an invitation […]