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 […]

Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself comes out today, and I’m eager to read it. From what I’ve heard, he writes a lot about his middle-class Midwestern upbringing in Urbana, Ill., a place Mike and I were proud to call home for many, many years, and the town where our son Gus was born. Ebert was […]

This week The Bark published a post I wrote for them about guide dog Roselle and her blind partner Michael Hingson. The pair were on the 78th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. They worked in tandem to get out safely, taking 1,463 steps one at a time. […]