And Now?
Sunday night, I sat down to dinner at a Thai restaurant in Eastern Market with two of my friends. The waiter had just served my dinner, a vegetarian glass noodles dish, and I was about to dig in when I...
View ArticleMaybe It Wouldn’t Be So Bad After All…
I’ve been carrying around this thought with me for the past few weeks. It’s a pretty interesting thought. A bit scary though when I peek a look. It’s a bit intense. It’s a bit confusing. This thought,...
View ArticleSpeech, Speech, Speech!
No, I’m not going on an ill-advised mission for advocating speech therapy. Rather, what my subject heading refers to is the multitude of speeches some of us in the DC area were lucky enough to enjoy...
View ArticleHow a Dinosaur Comic Taught Me Something About ASL
Today I got an email from the sign language linguistics email list that announced a new dinosaur comic about sign language. Spoiler alert! Look at the comic now if you want to be surprised before...
View ArticleOverheard
So on Saturday night, I went out to Madam’s Organ in Adams Morgan with four other girlfriends. One’s Deaf, two are interpreters, and one was in the Peace Corps around the same time as me and learned...
View ArticleStammering Children, Laughing Clinton, and Nonsigning Cops
“Stammering Children, Laughing Clinton, and Nonsigning Cops” Isn’t that a lovely title? I bet you clicked on this just to see if there could possibly be a connection between all of them. And yes, there...
View ArticleI Read a Great Book Last Night
My good friend, Rachel Knopf, gave me “the unheard: a memoir of deafness and africa” (words in the title uncapitalized in respect to how it was printed on the cover of the book) by Josh Swiller for a...
View ArticleBased On My Experience
Based on my experience, twenty-nine year old Deaf women should have twelve tattoos, read Paul Auster, and have a penchant for watching Buffy shows. Based on my experience, Deaf women my age should be...
View ArticleI *heart* Muck Redux
Last week during a hot cloudy hour when we couldn’t swim in the pool (I had a housesitting gig at a friend’s house with a pool), Muck (or Michelle McAuliffe, artist extraordinarie) and I were driving...
View ArticleSticky Rice, I’m Stuck on You
In DC, is there a place you can go where everyone knows your name in sign? (Okay, sorry for the lame attempt at trying to re-create the spirit of the theme song from “Cheers” … Where everybody knows...
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