Last week my Seeing Eye dog and I met a second-grader I’ve been hearing about for years. Bennett is a student at Tess Corners Elementary School in Wisconsin, and Whitney and I spent the entire day at his school Friday. I first heard of Bennett back in 2013, when his mom wrote to tell me […]

The Blind dating the blind guest post my 23-year-old pal Ali wrote for us Sunday got a great response from you Safe & Sound blog readers, so we’re rewarding you with another guest post by Ali. In today’s post, she describes Sunday’s date with her boyfriend Joe at Chicago’s Jazz Showcase. by Alicia Krage Beth […]

Hello from the Pacific Northwest – my Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I flew here from Chicago Wednesday for Sisters Weekend. The long flight from Seattle to Chicago gave me time to write out answers to questions I get about how I navigate O’Hare alone with my Seeing Eye dog: How do you get to […]

The special tour for people who have visual impairments before Gift Theater’s production of Richard III at Steppenwolf’s Garage Theater last Sunday was one of the most well-thought-out audio touch tours I’ve been on – and I’ve been on a lot of them! Here’s how it went: The play’s director Jennifer Thebus spoke to us […]

I’d researched the issues. I’d studied the candidates. It was a primary election, not a general one. Voting yesterday should have been a breeze. And you know what? It was! I voted on my own in the Illinois primary election yesterday! The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandated that voting systems provide some way […]