Conversations on disability, travel, family & art. Grab some coffee. stay for a while
[names have been changed, but that's it. this is a copy/paste of an email exchange] Hi “Jane”, “Mary” of the IDSC said that you are all ready for me, re: captioning for the town hall on Tuesday. Great! So what do I need to do? Thanks, Meriah Hi Meriah: Any chance you could call [...]
I. The beginning of my pregnancy with Moxie feels jumbled, as I recollect it now, some 3 years later. It’s a blur of happenings, events moving swiftly upon each other like quick waves that peak in a tsunami. The blur may be due to the events themselves or may be to the way my mind [...]
Mac is curled tight into the crook of my arm every night. It's a tender scene, I'm sure – his small warm body snuggled into my own. I'm sure it's also a scene that every granola-eating "family bed" proponent of a new age Berkeley hippie warms up to. It's not why I do [...]
There is a large sign-language training program in Tucson, Arizona. I know this because in the year that I lived in that town, people would practically pee in their pants when they saw my ginormous hearing aids. They'd start to sign furiously. They refused to talk to me unless I was looking directly at them. [...]
Last week I had fun making memes for the very first time (check it out) – and then I was wondering where all the d/Deaf ones are – so I made a couple: I'm turning into one of those people who just sits and laughs and laughs and laughs at their own jokes I made [...]
I wrote a post a few months ago called “deaf music” – mostly to explain why I was so upset that the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society said I could not listen to music while running my first half-marathon. In the post though, I told you the importance of music to me – I used to [...]
This is all kinds of “wow” Isn’t it? **** I was pretty close to this side of ecstasy this week since I’m very close to being done with the wordpress site. Not completely done – I have around 2,000 posts to convert, after all – but close enough to make the move, most likely next [...]
cross disability news on the blog “week in review”
Summer Disability/ Special Needs Blog Hop: a “hop” of many blogs with disability-related posts
Did you see this video yet? It’s of two-year old Cooper hearing his mother for the first time, after receiving cochlear implants. I think it’s awfully cute and yet I’m on the fence about the whole “rejoice because he’s not deaf anymore” sentiment. I don’t get the sense that many people realize that being deaf [...]
