Our friend Greg called yesterday and recited his new lyrics for an old Christmas standard. He came up with the parody while he was raking snow and ice off their roof in suburban Chicago and generously agreed to let me share the updated song with you blog readers. Easter is on April 20 this year […]

As spring training for Major League Baseball approaches, the baseball news is a little sparse—so one not-so baseballish item got a lot of attention this past week. Curt Schilling, a former pitcher and current broadcaster, announced he has cancer. Bear with me non-baseball fans, because this isn’t about baseball—but you should probably know a couple […]

My retired Seeing Eye dog Hanni turns 14 years old today. Loyal dog followers know that after Hanni retired from guide work, she went to live with our dear friends Nancy and Steven. To celebrate the big day, they’re heading out for a run in the snow at Homer Lake, a nearby forest preserve. I […]

Back in 2009 I got an email message from stage management at Court Theatre in Chicago. They were staging Wait Until Dark. Maybe you’ve seen the film version starring Audrey Hepburn? It’s a thriller about a con-artist who terrorizes an unsuspecting blind woman. The Court Theatre cast didn’t have much experience with blindness, so they’d […]

Here’s my husband Mike Knezovich with the first of his “Mondays with Mike” installments. When Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, I was 11 years old. Turmoil was everywhere—Viet Nam war protests, drugs, rock and roll, feminism, and of course, civil rights. Every thing was nuts, but still, in my little suburban world south of Chicago I […]