At last! That dress that’s been yearning to come out of the closet ever since I bought it in early March, 202o has a place to go: Mark your calendars for March 2, 2022. South Loop Neighbors has rescheduled its Authors Night! The original Authors Night had to be cancelled due to a Chicago snowstorm, […]

This just in: public health officials reported this morning that the number of COVID hospitalizations are continuing to decrease in Illinois. With covid “in retreat” now, we’re hoping people will feel more comfortable attending South Loop Neighbors’ Authors Night in person next Wednesday, February 2 at Half Sour, 755 S. Clark in Chicago. The event […]

My 15-year-old author friend Anja Herrman, a.k.a. DJ Mermaid, is going to be on WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio) today, September 22, 2021 at 3:44 pm. I wrote a post here years ago when a conversation Anja had with her aunt first aired on StoryCorps, and this is the week the Chicago StoryCorps booth will officially […]

Just got word that Melinda Mitchell, a long-time member of the “Me, Myself & I” memoir-writing class I used to lead at the Chicago Cultural Center, has died. Some of you long time Safe & Sound blog followers might remember Melinda — I wrote about her back in 2014 in a post called Waking Up […]

I already published a post earlier this week letting you know that to help celebrate the return of Printers Row Lit Fest this year Seeing Eye dog Luna and I will be sitting in front of Sandmeyer’s, our favorite local bookstore at 1:00 p.m. today (Saturday) signing books alongside Regan Burke, author of In That […]