So many of you were impressed with the post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote way back in 2016 when she was starting at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and figuring out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Ali sure mastered that very well – she graduated from NIU in […]

…no one. They didn’t play any song at all over the intercom to wake us up on our last day at the SeeingEye! A majority of the Seeing Eye graduates going home with our dogs yesterday were scheduled on early morning flights. Each of the four Seeing Eye trainers in our class was charged with […]

Editor’s note: Mornings at the Seeing Eye start with a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call: Ttrainers blast music through the intercom system to make sure we’re out of bed feeding our dogs and taking them outside to “empty.” Here’s a list of some of the more memorable selections from the January 2020 class: Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t […]

How’s life at the Seeing Eye, you ask? Here’s an account of our latest day of training: 5:30 a.m. Music comes through intercoms to wake us up. The day before we were matched with our dogs it was Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.” This morning it was The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love.”.” […]

Beth is aloft, on her way to The Seeing Eye, and the breed/gender reveal party for her new guide dog should come tomorrow. I’ll be the first to know. I will share the information with the highest bidder. (Just kidding.) Meantime, I’m going to try to use my solitude at home to catch up on […]