The reopening of businesses and other public places in Chicago comes with new rules about temperature testing and occupancy guidelines. Old rules about social distancing and masks still apply, and after months wearing a mask outside the apartment, it’s little bother and an easy way to keep Illinois numbers down. The Seeing Eye sent an […]

A photo on Mike’s Monday’s with Mike post this week left friends asking me whether or not Seeing Eye dog Luna has a hard time finding the front door to our apartment building now. Glass doors and windows have been boarded up ever since looters broke into two businesses on the first floor Saturday night. […]

School closures this year meant our presentations to students were cancelled, too. It’s been months since I shared new questions little kids ask about working with Luna, my Seeing Eye dog. I miss them! Big kids to the rescue! Here’s a sampling of questions students in my memoir-writing classes have been asking me lately, along […]

This past Friday my friend Jamie drove WhitneyLuna and me to the western suburbs of Chicago to visit six groups of third graders at four different schools. we were in Glen Ellyn and Wheaton as part of Educating Outside The Lines, a disability awareness program that uses a hands-on approach to help kids discover how […]

An “All fall down” update: Beth’s wrist was indeed broken by her fall. In two places. When against all hope the pain did not go away on the Monday after the tumble, we ended up in the ER on Tuesday morning, where doctors were fairly amazed that Beth had made it that long with just […]