The Seeing Eye is sending instructor Chris Mattoon out tomorrow to help Whitney and me. Blog readers might recognize his name: Chris came out to help me with Harper last fall, and my husband Mike Knezovich wrote a blog post about the visit. During that visit, Chris explained that Harper’s training at the Seeing Eye […]

Last month I published a post about two trips I took to New York City with Whitney during our training. Here’s an excerpt: I am happy to report that corrections don’t shake her confidence. “Oh, you meant for me to turn into Penn Station, Beth?” she seemed to say once. “Well, then, let’s back up […]

Here’s Mike again, with a guest blog. Beth has written — in her memoir and in blog posts here — about adjustments she and we learned to make to her blindness. For Beth, getting around is the most obvious challenge — how do I get to the post office? There are the basic features of […]

My smart, strong and independent friend Nancy Bollero traveled all the way from Urbana, Ill., to New Jersey to visit Whitney and me during our last weekend of training there. Nancy knows that during these first few days at home here in Chicago I need to dedicate my time to this new 58-pound bundle of […]

Hi all–this will be my last post for awhile. After retrieving Beth and Whit at O’Hare, Beth’s back on blog duty. The trip to O’Hare was relatively painless. I parked as near as possible, then headed to ticketing to see if I passed muster for a gate pass that would allow me through security to […]