Living The Questions

Since we hadn't been satisfied with the previous morning's buffet offerings, Robyn, Paul, Mike and I decided to go out before the wo...

In the morning we had workshops. Usually convention hotels provide "breakfast" in the form of rolls, fruit and coffee or tea for t...

Day Two in Philadelphia there was nothing planned until the Welcome Party at 7pm. Lorne would be flying in around 4-ish and Robyn wanted to...

I didn't realize until Sunday night that I was flying out in less than 24 hours. The plan had been to fly from Seattle to Philly togethe...

Something of an epiphany occurred while I was gone. Think about this. At the IFHOH (International Federation of Hard of Hearing People) Con...

IFHOH Day Four Day four started out like the other days-- a long drive to the Wall Center, followed by coffee at Starbucks and attendance at...

Day three-- part II The first workshop we attended Friday was called Accessibility Awareness Collaboration and Hard-of-Hearing People given...

IFHOH Day Three. SideKicks in Canada? Public loops? Real-time text? In the interest of making each of my posts a little shorter and more rea...

We missed the first Plenary Session-- something I would regret for the next several days whenever people mentioned "that deaf man who f...

This is just a quick recap of the IFHOH . (International Federation of Hard of Hearing) Congress in Vancouver, BC. Since I hate driving in V...

I feel badly I've been neglecting my blog here. The past two weeks I've been attending back to back hearing loss conventions. The fi...

I was inspired by Shel's recent comment about music in my last post. Several months ago I mentioned how Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussi...

Me-- when I could hear well. (1961) Shel wrote a nice comment in my post On the Fence , and asked about my childhood. I guess he wanted to g...

For all of you wiping tears over the fact your babies are growing up, I have news for ya. They'll always be your babies. I've jus...

Below is an anonymous response to Dena of "Going Deaf" after she expressed confusion over the growing hostility in DeafRead becaus...

I don't believe American Sign Language (or any language) is best learned on-line, but it's a fact of life that many of us who are la...

I don't usually do these silly quizzes, but I love color and crayons, and so I took this one which had surprisingly few questions. The a...

After visiting Deaf Village , Tony asks, “ What is this Golden Rule? " It’s not spelt out, and it is left to the reader to workout what...

Of all the blogging action about how DeafRead removed Cochlear Implant On-line from its aggregator, the only place constructive discussion ...