We had such fun with my sister Cheryl on our train ride to visit her daughter Caren and her family in Minnesota last year that she agreed to ride on the Texas Eagle with us to Springfield, Ill. Today. I’m pretty sure Harper will do alright on this trip (he guides well inside train stations […]

For the past couple of months, my husband Mike Knezovich has had two full-time jobs. He rose to the occasion after I broke my foot in June, walking Harper, accompanying me to doctor appointments, chauffeuring me to the Chicago Cultural Center so I could teach my memoir classes, running all our many, many errands. He […]

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 […]

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards. Spanish proverb Last week Mike and I joined dear friends in a campsite in southern France, on the Mediterranean and just over the Spanish border. Every Morning we’d sleep until ten, toddle over to the boulangerie for fresh croissants, enjoy breakfast outside our luxury […]

Harper needs a break. So do we. Friends have offered Harper a week of peace and quiet at their house in the suburbs, and while he’s Safe & Sound for a week or so in Wheaton, we’re heading…where else? The south of France! Here’s the story. A hundred years ago (well, really, more like 30 […]