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 […]

Mike, Whitney and I flew into La Guardia last Tuesday evening. The next day, New York City schools were closed due to snow. The next day, schools on Long Island were closed, too, so our Thursday visit to Rall Elementary School was cancelled. Eyebrows up! Whitney and I finally outlasted Mother Nature on Friday. We spent […]

It never fails. Every time my Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I visit a school, one of the kids comes up with a question I’ve never been asked before. Here’s my favorite from a trip we took to suburban Glenview earlier this month. “If you were never blinded, which would you rather be: a cat […]

I laughed out loud years ago when Myrna (a writer in one of the classes I lead for The Village Chicago) told me she was taking a class to learn how to fall. Really? Who needs lessons? I do that naturally! Myrna’s class started making more sense in 2015, when I fell and broke bones […]

Click on the video to take a walk with Beth from Whitney’s point of view. There’s a lot of motion, so be careful if you’re prone to seasickness. I hope you’ll read the post, too–think of it as the director’s notes:) Beth’s on her fourth Seeing Eye dog now, and I’ve marveled at and, really, […]