Living The Questions

So today I’m reading my book called Great Deaf Americans and once again I’m inspired by what so many were able to achieve. Their intelligen...

So today I showed up for my djembe lesson, and my instructor greeted me with, "Hi! You can go ahead and use the bathroom first before w...

In the book This Is Your Brain On Music, author Daniel J. Levitin brought up an intriguing philosophical line of thought. He said the flavor...

I can't stand looking at the same background all the time. So just bear with me-- PLEASE? It's a quirk--like the need to try on diff...

Thomas Edison was nearly deaf? Some sources say he inherited a progressive hearing loss from his father, while others say it was possibly c...

Cal Rodgers was born Jan. 12, 1879 and died on Apr. 3, 1912. He became sick with Scarlet Fever when he was six years old and lost his hear...

Speaking of lipreading, some funny things happened over the years with my kids. A lot of times I mis-read their lips and threw their friends...

I'm late-deafened. I can read lips, and I do pretty well at it. But I want to clarify what this means exactly because there seems to ...

Yesterday Mrs. Jones came into the library. "How are you today?" She talks and signs at the same time. "Good. YOU?" I ta...

It didn't hit me how happy I am until this morning when a mother came into the library with her screaming toddler. She struggled with hi...

This past week my belly dancing instructor made the comment, "There's a fine line between erotic and exotic." In dancing, the...

Today was one of those beautiful late summer days in the Northwest--a perfect 80 degrees. I drove around with sunroof and all the windows op...

I am a TV klutz. It's not because I don't watch TV. I LOVE certain programs. It's because I have never had control of the remote...

I came across this picture today and felt comforted by it. May they rest in peace.

Lately immigration laws have been in the news and people-- especially those from the southwest -- have been talking about it. My friend Lind...

It's Deaf Hero Day!! Since summer is almost over, I chose LeRoy Colombo, the greatest lifeguard who ever lived! He was born Dec. 23, 19...

This is my first meme, so please forgive if I have not followed meme protocol. It came from Bookish Kitty 1. If you could have super powers...

This happened awhile ago, but I still laugh whenever I think about it. One time Meg and I went to a Thai place for lunch. (The picture above...

Yesterday a deaf friend friend came over to pick up my son's waterbed because he's moving away in less than two weeks. We made deal-...

Today is deaf hero day!! I have chosen Juliette Gordon Low as one of my favorite of all time deaf/ hard-of-hearing people. As a former Girl ...