A week ago today I had a short one-on-one conversation with George R.R. Martin. He’s the guy who wrote the book Game of Thrones. And yes, the conversation was quite short. But still…. The back story: last Thursday the Chicago Public Library and Chicago Public Library Foundation honored George R.R. Martin with their Carl Sandburg […]

Happy October! The school year is back in full swing, and yesterday morning my friend Jamie drove Seeing Eye dog Whitney and me to Deerfield, a suburb of Chicago, to talk with third graders at Kipling Elementary School. We were there as part of Educating Outside The Lines, a disability awareness program that uses a […]

Heads up to nearby friends and neighbors: if you see me walking around our Printers Row neighborhood with an invisible dog tomorrow, don’t call the authorities. I haven’t lost my marbles. Not yet. No need to worry about the stranger you’ll see holding the front of Whitney’s empty rectangular harness and leading me around, either. […]

Two weeks from today I’ll be standing on stage with the guy who wrote the book Game of Thrones. The Chicago Public Library and Chicago Public Library Foundation is honoring George R. R. Martin at their Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 10, 2019 and I am absolutely thrilled to have been asked […]

Beth got a lot of reaction from her post about being hassled by a creepy guy, and having Whitney and a Good Samaritan banker help her. Apart from the comments, there were a lot of phone calls and in-person talks. Some expressed surprise and regret at having never thought about what being in a situation […]