Mike, Whitney the Seeing Eye dog and I are heading to New England this week to meet the narrator who read the audible.com version of Writing Out Loud. Robin Sitten and I have corresponded via email, we follow each other on twitter, and of course I know her voice — I’ve listened to her sensational […]

Hello from Champaign, Illinois! Whitney and I are doing our annual presentation for an animal sciences class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today, but this time, we’re adding a special video. From an email I sent to the teacher: Mike put a Hero GoPro (is that what they’re called?) on Whitney to videotape her […]

Greetings from New York City! I’m speaking at some elementary schools in Lindenhurst on Long Island tomorrow and Friday, but Whitney, Mike and I flew in yesterday to spend a couple days in Manhattan first. We booked a hotel room two doors down from our dear friends Benita and Henry on the Upper West Side, […]

That’s the title of the talk I’ll be giving for the Vivette R. Rifkin Seminar this Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The event is free, and the public is invited. Come on over! I’ll give more details below, but first, some background about the woman the […]

A lot of folks who read my Love Letter to Cultural Arts post last week about the panel I was on at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium asked me to write about the answers we gave to the questions provided. Your wish is my command, but first, a review. Last Tuesday I sat on a panel at Chicago’s […]