The questions Robin Sitten and I got from our audience at the Perkins School for the Blind Thursday sure were thought-provoking. Here’s a sampling: Did you write your memoir Long Time, No See as therapy, or did you write it to share your journey with others? The people who sign up for your memoir classes, […]

Mike, Whitney the Seeing Eye dog and I are heading to New England this week to meet the narrator who read the audible.com version of Writing Out Loud. Robin Sitten and I have corresponded via email, we follow each other on twitter, and of course I know her voice — I’ve listened to her sensational […]

Hello from the Amodt Inn, the lovely Orlando home of my sister Marilee and her husband Rick Amodt — just got back from giving a short presentation at their granddaughter’s preschool. Experience has taught me that preschoolers have a hard time grasping what blindness is (much less formulating questions about it), but who could resist […]

Hello from Champaign, Illinois! Whitney and I are doing our annual presentation for an animal sciences class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today, but this time, we’re adding a special video. From an email I sent to the teacher: Mike put a Hero GoPro (is that what they’re called?) on Whitney to videotape her […]

Mike, Whitney and I flew into La Guardia last Tuesday evening. The next day, New York City schools were closed due to snow. The next day, schools on Long Island were closed, too, so our Thursday visit to Rall Elementary School was cancelled. Eyebrows up! Whitney and I finally outlasted Mother Nature on Friday. We spent […]