Would you like to have a fantastic time while you are supporting an agency that provides valuable services to the community? Well, then why don’t you take-a-peek into the fun I have had since 2010, volunteering for the hard working, dedicated staff of DeafHope, at their annual Glimmer of Hope event for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Read more…
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Visioning Your Year
Did you make New Year’s resolutions? Do you have hope of actually keeping them? If yes, then you will be in the minority! One source says 92% of us will fail at keeping our resolutions, and 45% will fail by the end of January! Read more…
Poetry: Do I care too much?
This is dedicated to all of my fellow activists out there. It is so easy to become overwhelmed by the deluge of issues facing us as Deaf people and as United States citizens that at times all we may want to do is go fetal, under a blanket, and wail from the sheer hopelessness of it all. Read more…
A Huge Barrier to Economic and Political Self-Determination
Telephone relay services, including both video and text relay service, have been on my mind a lot for the past several months. I won’t bore you, dear reader, with the details of my extensive synaptic journey, except to describe the starting point, a point or two along the way, and the point I am at now. Please bear with this brief description, for this is but a prelude for the argument I want to make about where relay services need to go from this time forward. Read more…
Where Does Your Heart Make Its Home?
Where do you call home? Where is it your soul resonates with that inner-knowing that you belong there? Where do you go to feel grounded or rooted? Read more…