I published a post here last week about some of the writers I recruited to put together guest posts about love and relationships for Easter Seals (I have a part-time job moderating the Easter Seals national blog). One writer I didn’t mention in that post is the nine-year-old daughter of a health professional I saw […]

I didn’t see the broadcast of the Grammy Awards on TV Monday. I heard it. And that means I got to hear Stevie Wonder sing the lead to Earth, Wind and Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World” in memory of the band’s co-founder Maurice White. And as if that wasn’t enough, I also got […]

My Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I started our new year of elementary school visits in a big way: we took a commuter train to Elmhurst (The Chicago suburb where I grew up) and gave a presentation to 250 kindergartners, first-graders, and second-graders. All. At. Once. Whitney usually leads me to the train station in […]

I’ve already written a post here about how people who have visual impairments can use Siri to send text messages and make calls on iPhones. Now, after having broken some fingers in my left hand, I’ve started toying around with another dictation feature on my iPhone: the microphone on the keyboard. So far, for me, […]

Here’s the guest post you’ve been waiting for! Floey’s account of her tenth birthday celebration in Chicago Monday… by AnnMarie Florence Czerwinski I experienced a birthday of a lifetime. I got to go to the ocularist with my great ol’ Aunt Betha. It was a little freaky but it was really cool. First probably the […]