Tomorrow night, Thursday, November 18, 2021, I will be one of four women with disabilities on an hourlong free Zoom panel sponsored by the Skokie Public Library: Self Advocacy and the ADA–Online Event: Personal Perspectives, Challenges, and Success Stories Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Zoom Event What does self-advocacy look like […]
Seeing Eye dog Luna has been working with me in Chicago for a year-and-a-half now, and somewhere along the way she has picked up a tendency to veer when leading me across certain intersections. We could be, say, on a sidewalk along a busy street with the traffic at our left-hand side going the same […]
My friend Bill Green can see a little bit. I can’t see at all. The two of us have known each other for years, and a trip to Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood three weeks ago marked the first time we’ve actually worked together. If you call getting a personal tour of Chicago’s new Pullman National Monument […]
I have one fake eye. Eye surgeons did all they could to restore my vision when retinopathy set in 35 years ago. One of my eyes is still intact, but the other one shrunk so much from all the surgeries that I can’t hold that eyelid open. I wear a prosthesis in that eye. Every […]
July 26 is the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and this year I’ll be celebrating it with the fishes. Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium contacted me last month to let me know about new ticketing kiosks with accessibility features they’d be installing soon. “We are hoping you’d be interested in assisting us in testing out […]