Good news! I’ve been invited to give an Author Night Presentation about Writing Out Loud at Max and Benny’s Deli Restaurant in Northbrook! Even better news: the event is free, all you need to do is register. When: September 16th, 2019 7 pm – 8:30 pm Where: Max and Benny’s Restaurant, Deli and Bakery 461 […]

Note: In keeping with the mission of the Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium, photo captions include detail for visually impaired readers. Longtime Safe & Sound blog readers might recall a post I wrote in 2011 about seeing the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? here in Chicago. Better put, when I felt and heard the play: […]

Lucky us! In the past ten days Whitney the Seeing Eye dog and I have had the privilege of visiting nine different classrooms at five different elementary schools. Somehow, some way, we also managed to wedge a visit to a college classroom in the midst of all those visits to third-graders –last Tuesday we gave […]

I’ve written about Patty O’Machel here before. A writer, special needs advocate and the mother of a teenager who has cerebral palsy, Patty has started her own business to encourage other schools to use the disability awareness curriculum she developed years ago for her daughter’s elementary school. Educating Outside the Lines launched last year, and […]

Whitney and I were getting ready for our presentation to the second-graders at Chicago’s Francis Xavier Warde school cafeteria Monday morning when the first 25 arrived. “Sit real close,” their teacher told them. “We need to make room for the others.” The kids in front were close enough to strike up a conversation with me […]