You loyal Safe & Sound blog readers might remember that we delivered my retired Seeing Eye dog Whitney to her new retirement home in rural Pennsylvania this past December. Her new/old owner Elisse (Elisse and her family were the volunteers who raised Whitney as a puppy) keeps us up to date with Whitney’s adventures there. […]

Disclaimer: Today’s Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger, Bridget Hayman, is not a senior. One of the Zoom memoir-writing classes I lead on Thursday afternoons is open to writers of all ages. Bridget is the Director of Communications at Access Living (a leading force in Chicago’s disability advocacy community) and is using her lunch and taking […]

I am pleased to feature Gabriela Freese as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Her parents immigrated from Germany to South America; she and her twin sister were born and raised in Paraguay, and Gabriela immigrated to Chicago in 1959, where she met her future husband, a German immigrant. After receiving a degree in […]

I am pleased to introduce Annelore Chapin as our featured Saturday with Seniors blogger today. Born and raised in post-war Germany, Annelore met her American husband Roy there and left for the U.S. at age 20. Three children later, the family left Roy’s hometown in Wyoming to folllow his career — twice to Argentina, then […]

I am pleased to introduce Dick Coffee as our featured “Saturdays with Seniors” blogger today. Born in Gary, Indiana, Dick attended a regional campus of Purdue University while working as a foreman in a steel mill. A lay-off in 1975 enabled him to finish his undergraduate work and end up in Law School at Valparaiso University, […]