During our disability awareness presentations, one thing I like to get across to the school kids is that people with disabilities enjoy — and engage in — a lot of the same things they do. We just develop different skills (and sometimes use different “helping tools”) to achieve our goals. Two days ago Luna and […]

During our Covid year, I never got hooked on or binged any Netflix or other streaming shows. I did, however, binge watch cooking shows. Our PBS station, WTTW, stacks them pretty much all day long on Saturdays. There’s America’s Test Kitchen, which, in addition to recipes and techniques, also does a segment evaluating cooking tools […]

Last Saturday I got in a rental car (actually an enormous minivan—I know, oxymoron, but that’s what it was), figured out how to start the damn thing and put it into gear (I’m sorry, but shifting gears shouldn’t be done with a dial), stopped home to board Beth and Luna, and headed north. To Watertown, […]

Thanks for all the sweet comments to Wednesday’s blog post about leading memoir-writing class in-person again. A few of you requested I let you know how “opening day” played out, so here I am with some highlights: My good pants still fit Luna emptied during her morning constitutional – welcome news The cab I ordered […]

Happy Immunity Day! It’s been 14 days since Mike and I got our second Pfizer vaccine, and I’m celebrating by leading a memoir-writing class in person this afternoon. The last memoir-writing class I taught in person met 13 months ago. It is downright amazing how quickly we all adjusted to using Zoom and meeting online. […]