Archive for July, 2005


Another Era Goes By

This article originally appeared at i711.com.
Richard “Dick” Sipek, 82, died on July 17. I was stunned to learn of his death only two hours after he passed. Isn’t that how it usually is? We know that someone’s time will come, but we never think it’ll actually happen.
There’s a particular reason I was truly saddened by[.....]



An Apple a Day Keeps the Doc Away…

This article originally appeared at i711.
A friend recently referred to the head of a major deaf services agency as Dr. Smith (Smith, of course, being a fictitious name). I asked why he was referred to as a Doctor when he didn’t have a doctorate and wasn’t a medical doctor. “But this guy has a honorary[.....]