A photo on Mike’s Monday’s with Mike post this week left friends asking me whether or not Seeing Eye dog Luna has a hard time finding the front door to our apartment building now. Glass doors and windows have been boarded up ever since looters broke into two businesses on the first floor Saturday night. […]
School closures this year meant our presentations to students were cancelled, too. It’s been months since I shared new questions little kids ask about working with Luna, my Seeing Eye dog. I miss them! Big kids to the rescue! Here’s a sampling of questions students in my memoir-writing classes have been asking me lately, along […]
Remember life in January? That’s when I spent three weeks in New Jersey at The Seeing Eye with 20-plus other blind people, all of us training with new Seeing Eye dogs . What a stroke of luck to have been matched with one-year-old black Lab Luna then. She’s the perfect dog for me, and I […]
Every night at 8 pm, our neighborhood has a social distancing party. Saturday’s was an especially good party–it was Mike’s first. Two weeks ago today Mike was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with the COVID 19 virus. Here are some things that happened at home while he was away: When I let […]
UPDATE: The show must go on, coronavirus or not! Brian Balcom, the director, emailed us today to let us know that you can still see the play–virtually. Anyone who wants to see the show can do so within the comfort of their own home. Here’s how: Go to the Theater Wit website and purchase a […]