One of the seniors in the memoir–writing class I teach will appear on the Super Bowl this Sunday! No, not in the game. In a commercial! With the 1985 Chicago Bears! From the WGN Radio website: During the first quarter of the Feb. 7 game, an updated version of the classic “Super Bowl Shuffle” will […]

I was a bad cook when I could see. That didn’t change when I lost my sight. I still can’t cook, but now, I have an excuse. Or at least I did have an excuse, until that story about Laura Martinez came out in the Chicago Tribune last month. Martinez is 25 years old and […]

The woman sitting behind me on the train tapped my shoulder. “You dropped your coat,” she said. Funny. I was pretty sure I had my coat on, but I reached for the big buttons along the front just to make sure. Taking this as a sign we were near our stop, Hanni started shuffling at […]

After reading that article about Braille in last week’s New York Times, a senior producer at Chicago Public radio asked if I’d be interested in writing an essay about Braille. I sent one their way, and while I was at it, I sent along another essay as well. The second one was about that fifth […]

Blindness doesn’t bring a whole lot of advantages. So I relish the ones I have. I walk arm in arm with people all the time. My dog goes with me everywhere. And when friends drive me somewhere? we park in handicapped parking! Best of all, I can’t judge people by the way they look. Fat, […]