In my husband Mike Knezovich’s guest blog post about our trip to New Orleans last week, he described the “terrifyingly energetic” group of pre-schoolers who showed up to meet Whitney and me at the Latter branch of the New Orleans Public Library. What he forgot to mention was that a reporter from the New Orleans […]

Whitney and I squeezed in a school visit last week before we took off for New Orleans, and during my talks with kids at North Barrington Elementary School, I explained three rules to keep in mind if you happen to see a guide dog with a harness on: don’t pet the dog, don’t feed the […]

February is Love Your Library month, and I’m celebrating in style: I’m in New Orleans with Mike and Whitney, and tomorrow morning I’m the guest storyteller at the Milton H. Latter Memorial Branch of the New Orleans Public Library. I am, and have always been, a huge fan of books and libraries. I am among millions […]

My friend Stephanie is a librarian in New Jersey, and she came to the Seeing Eye to visit while I was training with Whitney in December. Sometime after that she noticed a very calm, beautiful, healthy Golden Lab mix sitting in the back of the Well Read Bookstore in Hawthorne, NJ and thought the dog had a […]

Check this out: Mrs. Walsh’s first-graders made a book to thank me for visiting their school with Whitney last month. When the book arrived in the mail I knew right away who I’d enlist to read it out loud to me. A number of the seniors in the Wednesday memoir-writing class I lead are retired Chicago […]