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When Pick met Henry. And Mike met Beth. And Mike and Beth met Henry and Pick…

December 8, 201220 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, guest blog, Mike Knezovich, travel, Uncategorized, visiting schools

Whitney and I are giving a presentation at the Waldorf School of New Orleans this Wednesday, and I’ve asked a few guest bloggers to fill in for me while we’re away. This first guest post is by my husband Mike Knezovich, who’ll be coming along with us to NOLA with some other dear friends, too. I lived […]

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Thanks to Sasha and Katya

December 4, 201226 CommentsPosted in blindness, Braille, careers/jobs for people who are blind, Uncategorized, visiting schools

Our nine-year-old friend Sasha and our six-and-a-half-year-old friend Katya invited their third-grade and first-grade friends at Dewey Elementary School to gather in the multi-purpose room yesterday morning to meet Whitney and me. I talked with them about Seeing Eye dogs, Braille, and about how I manage to write books without being able to see. It’s […]

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From Halsted to Diversity

October 15, 201236 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, memoir writing, Uncategorized, visiting schools, writing

Every semester Janie Isackson shepherds the DePaul students enrolled in her Explore Chicago: From Halsted to Diversity class onto the Red line in Lincoln Park so they can all come visit me down here in Printers Row. Long Time, No See is required reading for the course, which involves trips to neighborhoods all over Chicago to […]

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