The Complications of Growing Up Bionic

It’s not a tragedy to be deaf and it’s not a miracle when…

A Guide to Making Reading Fiction Fun

What sucks the fun out of reading and what to do about it

When you read a good story, a lot happens. It activates your visual cortex as if you were actually seeing what the words describe. Your…

From Silence to Sound

What it’s really like to hear for the first time after growing up totally deaf

I didn’t hear a damn thing until I was six.

The Vanities of a Blind Woman

If you had met me six years ago, you would’ve found me to be an ordinary young woman where my vanities were concerned.

Whenever I passed by the mirror, my gaze assessed my reflection. I zeroed in on my physical flaws. The bump on my nose. My belly’s…