Early tomorrow morning, January 6, 2020, I head to O’Hare for a flight to Newark International Airport. There I’ll meet up with guide dog users from all over North America to catch a ride together to Morristown, New Jersey for three weeks training with our new Seeing Eye dogs. This short post will clue you […]

Thank you for all your thoughtful responses to our posts about Whitney’s happy retirement in rural Pennsylvania. Thought you might like a quick update from an email message her new/old family sent yesterday. “Having Whitney is giving me the motivation to take walks again, so that’s been good,” reports Elisse, who walks with Whitney every […]

Stretch your legs on an airplane: no one tucked under the seat in front of you Learn a lesson in humility: people no longer say “She’s beautiful!” when you enter a room Sleep: the 5 a.m. “I’m hungry” wake-up call happens in Pennsylvania now Get through TSA without being wanded Take an escalator without cringing […]

Like you loyal readers, I was touched by Elisse’s guest blog last week—and I already knew the story! Something about reading the blog made it all more real—I was at a work conference with very little time for contemplation. But when I got back last night, at some point, I felt how much I’m gonna […]

Last week I wrote about how our plans to surprise our friend Nancy to see Elton John together went awry. But we still managed to have a lovely time. Well, another plan has gone awry, and this one’s a little harder to swallow. We’ve had it all figured out for months: My organization, PHIUS, puts […]