Blogs about: Beth Finke

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So yeah, that really happened14 comments

bethfinke wrote 18 hours ago: Hi, My husband Mike’s giving me a blog break again. Here’s his latest: She’s back … more →

Tags: guest blog, Mike Knezovich, Cardiology, defibrillation, Near Death Experience, Northerwestern Memorial Hospital, open heart surgery, Ranya Sweis

For my first cardio rehab walk, I'm heading to 7-Eleven for a Megamillions ticket63 comments

bethfinke wrote 2 weeks ago: Mike chauffeured me home on Tuesday. Listening to Mike read all your loving and glowing blog comment … more →

Tags: guest blog, Mike Knezovich, friends I am thankful for, Near Death Experience, recovery from open heart surgery

Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts4 comments

bethfinke wrote 4 weeks ago: Hi folks–it’s still Mike here, Beth will be back on the job soon. Meantime, thought I … more →

Tags: blindness, Memoir Writing, technology for the blind, Whitney, Nea, Residency, vermont studio center, VSC

Whitney and Beth (and Hanni), Safe and Sound15 comments

bethfinke wrote 1 month ago: Beth and Whit have settled into a routine up at the Vermont Studio Center. Hi all — it’s … more →

Tags: blindness, guide dogs, Hanni, Mike Knezovich, Travel, Whitney, Writing for children, Blue Marlin Publications, Francine Poppo Rich

Fantagstic!13 comments

bethfinke wrote 2 months ago: If you liked that guest post an engineering student wrote for the Safe & Sound blog last month, … more →

Tags: braille, blindness, technology for the blind, being blind, Northwestern University, Design Thinking, Segal Design Institute, Engineering Students

Understanding blindness--through photography25 comments

bethfinke wrote 2 months ago: My husband Mike does the Facebook thing, and earlier this week he posted a link to a collection of p … more →

Tags: blindness, Mike Knezovich, being blind, Street Photography

What was this post supposed to be about again? Oh, yeah4 comments

bethfinke wrote 2 months ago: Two of the memoir-writing classes I lead each week are sponsored by Lincoln Park Village, a non-prof … more →

Tags: blindness, writing, Memoir Writing, being blind, aging, Memory, Brain health, affect of blindness on memory

Worst in show19 comments

bethfinke wrote 3 months ago: It’s guest post time again. Here’s my husband Mike Knezovich. Dogs ain’t the probl … more →

Tags: Seeing Eye dogs, guide dogs, Travel, blindness, Mike Knezovich, guest blog

When Pick met Henry. And Mike met Beth. And Mike and Beth met Henry and Pick...13 comments

bethfinke wrote 5 months ago: Whitney and I are giving a presentation at the Waldorf School of New Orleans this Wednesday, and I’v … more →

Tags: Travel, Visiting Schools, Mike Knezovich, guest blog, Friends, NOLA, Disco, Keith Pickerel, Henry Londner

Help! I can't see the ballot!9 comments

bethfinke wrote 6 months ago: I’ve researched the issues. I’ve studied the candidates. I’m ready to vote. Now I’m just hopin … more →

Tags: blindness, technology for the blind, Accessibility, Voting, being blind, Voting with a disability, 2012 Presidential Election, problems at polling places

From Halsted to Diversity32 comments

bethfinke wrote 7 months ago: Every semester Janie Isackson shepherds the DePaul students enrolled in her Explore Chicago: From Ha … more →

Tags: blindness, writing, Visiting Schools, Memoir Writing, Printers Row, Chicago neighborhoods, DePaul University, explore chicago, Diversity

Designed by Kayla24 comments

bethfinke wrote 7 months ago: Whitney and I had a ball at the Youth Literature Festival in Champaign last week, and the highlight … more →

Tags: blindness, braille, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guide dogs, Public Speaking, Seeing Eye dogs, Visiting Schools, Whitney, Writing for children

There's still time to get passive11 comments

bethfinke wrote 8 months ago: Passive House Institute US , the non-profit organization my husband Mike Knezovich works for, is hol … more →

Tags: Mike Knezovich, Travel, Whitney, Denver, energy standards, flying with a Seeing Eye dog, New York Times, Saving Energy, University of Illinois

War wounds6 comments

bethfinke wrote 9 months ago: Whitney and I sure met a lot of motivated athletes last weekend at the Summer Military Sport Camp, a … more →

Tags: blindness, New York Times, ptsd, Veterans, Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, coming home

Let's ask Miss Manners26 comments

bethfinke wrote 9 months ago: The orientation packet they sent out for the Summer Military Sport Camp I’m volunteering at includes … more →

Tags: blindness, being blind, feeling comfortable around people with disabilities, people who look different, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, ric, Sports Camp, Veterans, Volunteering

From jazz camp to sports camp11 comments

bethfinke wrote 9 months ago: A photo from last year’s RIC Summer Camp. My job at Easter Seals Headquarters just started a p … more →

Tags: blindness, Whitney, careers/jobs for people who are blind, Volunteering, being blind, wounded heroes foundation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, ric, Sports Camp

This mixolydian life14 comments

bethfinke wrote 9 months ago: I spent the past four days at a summer Jazz Camp here in Chicago. That was not a typo. I was at Jazz … more →

Tags: radio, blindness, Whitney, npr, Chicago Tribune, WBEZ, New Orleans, being blind, Morning edition

Hint: It's not a shade of grey11 comments

bethfinke wrote 10 months ago: Cherie Colyer (author of teen novel Embrace) regularly interviews fellow children’s book authors on … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Writing for children, flo, embrace, Cherie Colyer, Author Interview

I think the prize should really be a free night in a fancy hotel...9 comments

bethfinke wrote 10 months ago: Without being able to drive, I’ve always thought that blind people who use guide dogs — … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Seeing Eye dogs, guide dogs, blindness, technology for the blind, Whitney, careers/jobs for people who are blind, being blind, pedometer


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