Living The Questions

We had such a fantastic time in Puerto Vallarta I didn’t want to come home. As a tourist, you’ve got your choice of cruises, jungle tours, ...

It’s the end of day two in Mexico. So far I’ve found it pretty easy to get around as a hard-of-hearing/deaf vegetarian. I had forgotten how ...

Tomorrow I’m going to Puerto Vallarta. Am I ever looking forward to the sunshine! Seattle has been stormy this past week. We even had a smal...

Lately I've been reading a lot of interesting blogs and thinking about the terms d-deaf and D-deaf. Chris Heuer generated a great discu...

Recently I read a blog where two people argued whether deaf culture really existed. One person made the statement that the deaf don’t have t...

Last Wednesday marked my fourth day in ASL class and I was pleased with my test score of 99 out of 100. This wasn't a huge surprise beca...

This article below really inspired me. I've been thinking about happiness a lot lately-- why some people are happy and some are not. Lon...

I meant to blog about banned books last week. Since I work in a library there's probably nothing I'm more passionate about than our ...

This week I chose Gene "Silent" Hairston for my Deaf Hero profile. He was born in Harlem in 1930, and became deaf from spinal meni...

Today I awoke to a familiar sound-- my husband puking in the toilet. Retching must fall in the 250 hertz range on an audiogram because I can...

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...