My friend Lindy Bergman was an art collector. Then macular degeneration set in. When the disease became so severe that Lindy could no longer see the surrealist works on her apartment walls, she donated the collection to the Art Institute of Chicago. From a New York Times review of the Art Institute’s new modern wing: […]

Harper and I are making progress! Yesterday morning he guided me downtown to teach my memoir class for senior citizens at the Chicago Cultural Center. We made it back and forth safely, and he didn’t cower once. “Attaboy, Harper!” Later that afternoon I had him guide me to Michigan Avenue to the pool where I […]

Four months ago (has it been that long already?) Harper and I returned from Morristown to piles of snow here in Chicago. Poor Harper had never trained in snow, but he was a troopertrouper. He made the adjustment. Is that why he’s cowering on our walks to the Loop now? Does he miss the snow? […]

While Harper and I were giving an evening presentation at Door County Community Center in Wisconsin last Tuesday night, it started snowing. The next morning, there was 15 inches of snow on the ground. I tuned in to the local AM radio station and learned Door County has an army of 35 snow plows. Only […]

Harper and I woke up this morning in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin. My high school friend Jennifer L. Fischer is director of Women and Children’s Services at Ministry Door County Medical Center, and over Thanksgiving last year she had the wonderful, wonderful idea to have Harper and me come “up north” to do some presentations. […]