It’s official. Hanni and I are dogblog maivens. Another dogblogger blogged about us today. Here’s the skinny: A woman named Mary Ellen was at the presentation Hanni and I gave earlier today at the Old Orchard Barnes & Noble in Skokie, Illinois. Turns out Mary Ellen is the Executive Director and co-founder of “Sit Stay Read! […]

Mike and I met in Urbana. Our son Gus was born in Urbana. My first Seeing Eye dog, Dora, retired in Urbana. When Hanni first came home to live with us, we lived in Urbana. We love Urbana. Our son Gus moved to the Bethesda Lutheran Home in Watertown, Wisconsin in 2003. That’s the year […]

Every semester I give a guest lecture for a disability awareness class at DePaul University in Chicago. This semester, though, the class decided to come to me. Twenty or so students piled into our apartment this afternoon to see where I live, how I manage in the house, and what my talking computer sounds like. […]

Hanni and I gave a presentation in the BookKids department at BookPeople in Austin yesterday. I started the presentation by explaining that even though my eyes are open I can’t see. “When I was little, I went to school just like you – and then when I lost my sight I had to go to […]

Last Spring a cab driver refused to pick me up in front of the Hilton on Michigan Avenue. “I’m not taking her with that dog,” he said, then sped away. The doorman took down the cab’s license number, then told me what it was. I got into the next cab and recorded the number onto […]