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

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.