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 […]

Greetings from New York City! I’m speaking at some elementary schools in Lindenhurst on Long Island tomorrow and Friday, but Whitney, Mike and I flew in yesterday to spend a couple days in Manhattan first. We booked a hotel room two doors down from our dear friends Benita and Henry on the Upper West Side, […]

That’s the title of the talk I’ll be giving for the Vivette R. Rifkin Seminar this Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The event is free, and the public is invited. Come on over! I’ll give more details below, but first, some background about the woman the […]

It never fails. Every time my Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I visit a school, one of the kids comes up with a question I’ve never been asked before. Here’s my favorite from a trip we took to suburban Glenview earlier this month. “If you were never blinded, which would you rather be: a cat […]

My Seeing Eye dogs and I have visited dozens of elementary schools over the years that pair average kids with students who have disabilities in “buddy” programs. The school Whitney and I are visiting this Wednesday takes that idea one step further. At Glen Grove Elementary in Glenview, Illinois. students are paired with a fellow […]