Whitney and I just got back last night from a web design conference in Dallas — my friend Sharron Rush gave the opening keynote yesterday, and when I heard she’d worked with Google to come up with a way to award conference scholarships to people with disabilities who wanted to attend, I went ahead and […]
And now, some updates on librarians I admire who are marking the end of “Love Your Library” month by making big transitions. Karen Keninger. Karen is my fellow Seeing Eye graduate who is leaving her position as director of the Iowa Department for the Blind to become Director of the National Library Service for 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 […]
Harper and I head to Madison, Wisconsin today, and one of the things we’ll be doing there is this: “The Lindbergh Lectures” Thursday, September 29 12:00 – 12:50 PM Room 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building “Seeing a Bigger Picture” Beth Finke NPR commentator, Teacher and Journalist Author of “Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound” Abstract: Thanks […]
Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself comes out today, and I’m eager to read it. From what I’ve heard, he writes a lot about his middle-class Midwestern upbringing in Urbana, Ill., a place Mike and I were proud to call home for many, many years, and the town where our son Gus was born. Ebert was […]