Mondays with Mike is back! It’s–about the time I thought I’d get back in the Mondays rhythm, life happened and, well, apologies for the absence. There’s a backlog of blog ideas, but for today, I’m going to stick with something that maybe has been going on for a while but I’ve just noticed: The proliferation […]
I usually avoid reading fiction or watching movies starring characters who are blind. Too many writers and filmmakers portray blind characters one-dimensionally — we’re either heroic or tragic, bumbling or, particularly lately, blessed with super-powers. But Netflix is releasing a limited series of four episodes of the film All the Light We Cannot Seetomorrow, November […]
A quick update: After weeks of visiting a wound clinic, the wound is healing (one word: Medihoney). My wound and I are on much better terms with one another now and a cortisone shot allows my arthritic big toe on my right foot to, you know, move and stuff. I still use a walking stick, […]
A lot of you have been asking me how everything went during my Tuesday visit to the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. The Visitor Experience Coordinator there (along with a museum consultant) invited me to come Tuesday to take a tour and do an accessibility review and walk-through of the museum on behalf of people […]
On September 28 last year, Beth and I were in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, thanks to the generosity of her nephew Ben—who owns a sweet little condo right off the lake, and who let us take a break from downtown Chicago. We got a call – our friend Brad had died after having seemingly survived lung […]