This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column. A few years ago, I had to get a hearing test taken. “Mary” had told me that the University of Minnesota provided free audiological exams, so I decided to take advantage of this. Mary told of how she had been treated at[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column. When I was at my grandmother’s a few weeks ago, she made me take some of my old school papers and toys home with me. I went through the papers, laughing at my horrible handwriting, marveling at how poor my artistic skills[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column. My heart was pounding with anticipation. Twenty years after I left, I was finally returning to a place that held so many memories for me: Springfield, Illinois. As I drove, I thought about all the years at Hay-Edwards Elementary School, where I[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column. I did a double take as I drove in my jeep in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Was I really seeing what I had just seen? I carefully looked again. Yup. I hadn’t misread the yellow diamond sign that proclaimed: IMPAIRED CHILD AREA. I[.....]