The emotions that come with loving an adult child who has significant disabilities can be difficult to put into words, but when a reporter interviewed my husband Mike for a story about our son Gus in this month’s Bethesda Messenger, Gus’ dad found just the right things to say. Gus and his three roommates moved […]

I plan on starting the “Smelling is Believing” workshop I’m leading at Northwestern University’s Summer Writers’ Conference tomorrow sharing accounts of magazine and newspaper editors I’ve worked with who have doubted that a person who is blind could write a good story. You know, like the editor who asked me to write about Miss America, […]

Here’s a guest post from my husband Mike Knezovich: Beth’s in two distinct minorities: She’s blind. And she’s one of the minority of people who are blind who also use guide dogs. (I’m leaving out that other ultraminority she’s in — you know, the group of people who have had a benign tumor the size […]

My friend Benita Daniels Black grew up in the Bronx, taught at public schools in Queens, and raised her son in their apartment in the Village. She loves New York City, and she planned on living there the rest of her life. But then she went to her grade school reunion. Dr. Henry Black attended […]

An organization called Art Beyond Sight is working with the Chicago History Museum to learn more about ways people who are blind manage in museums, and I’ve been invited to head over there this Thursday morning to offer suggestions. Confession: I’m always ambivalent about these things. I credit the institutions for trying. I really do. […]