I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.