How’s life at the Seeing Eye, you ask? Here’s an account of our latest day of training: 5:30 a.m. Music comes through intercoms to wake us up. The day before we were matched with our dogs it was Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.” This morning it was The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love.”.” […]

Beth is aloft, on her way to The Seeing Eye, and the breed/gender reveal party for her new guide dog should come tomorrow. I’ll be the first to know. I will share the information with the highest bidder. (Just kidding.) Meantime, I’m going to try to use my solitude at home to catch up on […]

Early tomorrow morning, January 6, 2020, I head to O’Hare for a flight to Newark International Airport. There I’ll meet up with guide dog users from all over North America to catch a ride together to Morristown, New Jersey for three weeks training with our new Seeing Eye dogs. This short post will clue you […]

Thank you for all your thoughtful responses to our posts about Whitney’s happy retirement in rural Pennsylvania. Thought you might like a quick update from an email message her new/old family sent yesterday. “Having Whitney is giving me the motivation to take walks again, so that’s been good,” reports Elisse, who walks with Whitney every […]

Stretch your legs on an airplane: no one tucked under the seat in front of you Learn a lesson in humility: people no longer say “She’s beautiful!” when you enter a room Sleep: the 5 a.m. “I’m hungry” wake-up call happens in Pennsylvania now Get through TSA without being wanded Take an escalator without cringing […]