All your positive comments to my post about Nancy Faust Day at White Sox Park made me think. Hey, maybe the Chicago Tribune would like to publish a blind woman’s view on Nancy Faust’s departure. After rewriting it a bit, I sent the piece off to the Tribune along with a photo of Hanni, me […]

Back in 1985, a social worker predicted my first couple years of blindness would be like going through adolescence all over again. “It’ll be just like you’re a teenager,” she said. “You’ll be worried about how you look, and you’ll do everything you can to fit in with your friends.” She told me to be […]

If someone told you they were going to a disability culture cabaret, would you know what the heck they were talking about? I sure didn’t. Still don’t, really. Guess I’ll find out this Friday, though – I agreed to perform in one!Here’s a description from the Chicago Amplified page on Chicago Public Radio’s web site: […]

Sox fans will miss you Nancy, and so will MLB.   My visit to White Sox Park tomorrow is going to be bittersweet. Not because of the team – they actually did better than I expected this year. It’s because of the organist. This is Nancy Faust’s last year at the pipe organ, and tomorrow’s […]

After returning from his first trip abroad to Egypt, my nephew Brian Miller turned right around and went back to the Middle East for a semester of intensive Arabic in Jordan. Next stop, a study program in Kuwait with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. From there he took side trips through Syria and Turkey. […]