I’ve missed a couple Mondays recently, and for that, I apologize. The first was owed to exhaustion. On October 10 I left for Tarrytown, New York, the start of a weeklong effort to put on…gulp…an in-person conference. The non-profit I work for—Phius—puts on an annual conference and after a virtual shindig last year, we gathered […]

Hello from Beth: After yesterday’s late-night Chicago White Sox season-saving 12 to 6 playoff victory over the Houston Astros, Mike is away on Cloud Nine. For today’s Mondays with Mike feature, we’re reblogging a post he wrote July 20, 2020. Things sure were a lot different then! by Mike Knezovich Originally published on July 20, […]

People with disabilities face a lot—there’s the disability itself. But there’s also the boxes others can put disabled people in. I’ve seen it first-hand. A lot of what Beth does is extremely difficult and sometimes scary. But if she lets on to that, others will assume that she has limitations that she doesn’t have. And […]

My father and his three brothers served in the armed forces during WWII. I grew up with a simplistic reverie for them, and the armed forces, and had that simplistic, callow view that the good guys won. My dad and my uncles were good guys. The good guys did win. They were good guys, but […]

A few days ago, three bottles of wine arrived from Oregon. We haven’t sampled them yet—they deserve a special occasion, equal to the story of how we got them. It all started at a White Sox game a few weeks ago … no, that’s not true. It all started at Hackney’s, a local bar/restaurant that […]