Why Should I Make a Portfolio? Wait, what exactly is a portfolio? There seems to be a context…or is there? Let’s define it, and perhaps there is metaphoric value and context in each one of these “traditional definition” examples below.. According to...
Wearing hearing aids is hard work. It is a constant struggle to find someone’s voice in the sea of over amplified unrelated sounds. Be patient with me. I’m visual. Everything I missed, and everything “I filled in” to make up for it turns into an image or icon in my...
This image of Dave Matthews is inspired by a video still frame I screen shot from the Listener Supported concert in 1999. Its meaningful to me as a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person. First and foremost, I have reached a point in my life where hearing aids no longer can...
September is National Deaf Awareness Month How will you contribute? Im going to be practicing ASL and sharing the sign language alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc). Im also going to make a series of new animations (like this...
Nothing happens overnight. Inner and outer life changes are really a sum total of activating trigger points that disguise themselves as people, places, situations and occurrences. I keep reminding myself. We can only speak and communicate from own experiences and then...