I’ve been AWOL from the blog for a long while now. That’s owed to a number of things, including some health issues (which have largely resolved). I have managed to continue leading memoir classes, though less frequently, and I’m delighted to report that Luna and I are again visiting schools through the terrific Educating Outside […]

Two days ago our friend Ruth drove my Seeing Eye dog Luna and me to the Admiral At the Lake, a retirement community where I lead memoir-writing classes every Wednesday. I wasn’t there this time to lead a writing class, though: we were there to answer questions from third-graders who attend Goudy Elementary, a Public […]

Last Friday Luna and I presented a special program for third-graders from a school where more than half the students are children of immigrants. Goudy Elementary is located so close to The Admiral at the Lake (a retirement community where I lead weekly memoir-writing classes) that they can walk there. They do exactly that every […]

This past Tuesday Seeing Eye dog Luna and I had the honor of visiting third-graders at Oak Terrace Elementary school in Highwood, Illinois to talk about what it’s like to be blind and how service dogs help us get around. Oak Terrace is a Spanish dual language school: students there are provided daily instruction in […]

I sure have been busy lately. But really? who hasn’t been?! My busy-ness doesn’t have much to do with the holidays, though. I’ve been busy writing, and it’s making me feel good! Let me explain. After decades and decades of querying magazines about story ideas, pleading with agents to give my latest manuscript a read, […]