I have a part-time job moderating the blog for Easterseals national headquarters, and we published a post there this week that I’m sharing here, too. Some of you might remember Bernhard Walke from previous guest poasts – he and his wife Rosa are the proud parents of nine-year-old Elena, and every year he comes up […]

If you’ve followed our Safe & Sound blog for a while, you know who Wanda Bridgeforth is: she has been attending the memoir-writing class I lead in downtown Chicago for over a decade. She’s witty and talented, and today, October 19, not only is Sweetest Day, it’s Wanda’s 98th birthday! When our “Me, Myself and […]

As promised, here’s the happy ending to Ali Krage’s post about applying for a part-time job at Northern Illinois University. Before reading this one, though, be sure to catch Part 1. by Alicia Krage The interview questions were precisely the ones my parents had asked when we were practicing. I had a question I wanted […]

Still haven’t seen the movie – or a single episode on television – but after meeting Brendan Coyle, a.k.a. Mr. Bates at Goodman Theater earlier this year, I guess I just can’t get enough of seeing actors from Downton Abbey live on stage! When I signed up for the touch tour of “The King’s Speech” […]

You might recall a post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote in 2016 explaining how college students who are blind can figure out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Well, she figured it out! Three years later, Ali is in her final semester at Northern Illinois University and landed a […]