South Carolina was swell. Our presentation at my sister Bobbies’ Book Club was well-received, and it was downright refreshing to go outside without a parka and boots on. It would’ve been hard to return to cold and windy Chicago if we didn’t know Mike was there waiting for us. And to add icing, pardon the […]

Winters were hard in the college town where we used to live. Urbana’s sidewalks were brick, and difficult to shovel. When it snowed, people walked in the street. Not a good option for a Seeing Eye dog. On days it snowed, Hanni and I were trapped inside. Winter is easier on us here in the […]

    A teenager came up to chat with me after last week’s event at the Oak Park Public Library. “I have a poem published on the internet,” she said. I was impressed, but I was busy signing books. I didn’t have time to ask what the poem was about. “Send me the link,” I told […]

    This Thursday at 7 pm I’ll be speaking at the public library in Oak park, Illinois. Oak park is the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway. I like to think that the Nobel Prize winner and I have a special bond. It’s not true, of course, but I like to think it. After all, Ernest and […]

                             I had a good feeling that a lot of people might show up to see Hanni and me at The Bookstore in Glen Ellyn yesterday. Rick Kogan had mentioned our Glen Ellyn appearance on his WGN radio show in Chicago, there was an article about hanni and me on the cover of the Glen […]