This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I’ve been a lifetime member of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf–since I was a baby. I remember going to “Frat meetings” held at the local bowling alley’s meeting room, and I’ve always had a keen interest in NFSD’s insurance[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I was eight. We were having our fly-up ceremony, to mark our moving up from the rank of Brownie to Junior Girl Scout. My troop was exceptionally large at the time–over 30 girls, and my mom was one of the four assistant[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s HAND ON column.
What do the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, and the SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota, have in common?
Both museums–located in small towns in the middle of nowhere–are deaf-friendly.
My grandmother lives just across the Mississippi from Twain’s old stomping grounds, so I[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
My boyfriend’s mother’s sister’s oldest daughter’s oldest five children’s father’s sister is my stepdad’s ex-wife (it helps if you draw a chart). No, my boyfriend and I are not related. Thankfully.
Deaf people often joke about how closely intertwined the deaf community is.[.....]