Two weeks from today I’ll be standing on stage with the guy who wrote the book Game of Thrones. The Chicago Public Library and Chicago Public Library Foundation is honoring George R. R. Martin at their Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 10, 2019 and I am absolutely thrilled to have been asked […]
Hey, did you read that piece Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens wrote last month about the memoir-writing classes I lead in Chicago? It’s the most well-written and accurate piece any journalist has ever published about how I got started teaching memoir-writing and why I love my classes so much. Bonus: I hear the photos are […]
If you know Michael Knezovich — or you read his blog posts — you know he has been connected with the passive house movement for a long time now. He met German-born architect Katrin Klingenberg back in 2001. After Katrin and her partner Mike Kernagis, a builder from America, founded the non-profit PHIUS (Passive House […]
Ali Krage’s last guest post was Part One of her two-part series on how a blind couple (Ali and her boyfriend Joe) arrange and enjoy a hotel stay on their own. Here’s Part Two. by Alicia Krage I was up at 6 a.m. the day we’d be heading to the hotel. I’d gone to sleep […]
I’m heading off to beautiful Grand Haven, Michigan today for Sisters’ Weekend, and while I’m away my young friend Ali Krage is stepping in with a guest post. I met Ali 15 years ago at a “low-vision conference” in DuPage County. “I’m blind like you and I can read Braille and I go to the […]