I have a part-time job moderating the Easter Seals blog, and today we published a post there that I wrote about guide dogs and winter weather. I thought you Safe & Sound blog readers might find it interesting, too, so here it is. The cold and snowy weather last week had a lot of people […]

Plenty of people who use guide dogs take the subway safely back and forth to work every day. I am not one of those courageous people. Whitney and I walk long distances in the Chicago Loop, jump into cabs, ride CTA buses…but we NEVER take the el by ourselves. Here’s why: during the 1990’s, when […]

Here’s my husband Mike with a terrific guest post about how my Seeing Eye dogs look from his point of view. by Mike Knezovich Beth’s on her fourth Seeing Eye dog—and, in a very real way, so am I. Everyone easily grasps the difference a guide dog can make in its partner’s life. What they […]

Hi folks–Mike (Beth’s spousal unit) here with a guest post. Beth wrote recently about people abusing the ADA by falsely or at least loosely claiming their pet was a service dog. Well, the less I say about that phenomenon, the better. On the extreme flip side—at least from what I can glean, is this example […]

Whitney and I visited four different classes at Drummond Thomas Montessori School in Chicago last Wednesday morning. After I told one class that even when my eyes are open, all I see is the color black, one preschooler wondered, “Then how do you know when you’re tired?” I can tell you this much: I’m pretty […]