Harper and I head to the Chicago Public Radio studios on Navy Pier tomorrow to record an essay about his early retirement. Plenty of CTA buses go from our neighborhood to Navy Pier, but ever since my Seeing Eye dog was clipped by a car last Spring, he’s afraid to take me across the street […]

We had such fun with my sister Cheryl on our train ride to visit her daughter Caren and her family in Minnesota last year that she agreed to ride on the Texas Eagle with us to Springfield, Ill. Today. I’m pretty sure Harper will do alright on this trip (he guides well inside train stations […]

Laura Martinez is 26 years old and has always loved to cook. She attended Le Cordon Bleu before accepting a position at Charlie Trotter’s, a five-star restaurant here in Chicago. And, oh yeah. Laura Martinez just happens to be blind. In her spare time (!) Laura teaches a cooking class at Friedman Place, a non-profit […]

Harper is not the only heroic guy in the family – my husband Mike Knezovich is a hero, too. When I told him I’d have a hard time writing about this, he generously offered to write a guest post about it for me. Harper the hero by Mike Knezovich So I was going to steal […]

Break out the Lana Turner dress – I’m going to an exclusive affair at Marcel’s Culinary Experience this Saturday night! What? You haven’t heard of Marcel’s? Where do you live? Under a rock or something? Marcel’s is the new culinary retail store and cooking school that my dear friend Jill Foucré just opened in Glen Ellyn, […]