Archive for January, 2008


A thumbs up for District One Hospital

This article originally appeared at i711.com. It was a question that lingered in many people’s minds, including ours. We all wondered, given that my husband is a third-generation deaf person and I second-generation, whether our new baby would be deaf or hearing. My husband and I threw out the obligatory “The important thing is our[.....]



Biting the hand that feeds them

This article originally appeared at i711.com. Last summer, a colleague at a video relay services (VRS) provider contacted me to get names of local key contacts, because the company was looking to set up camp in the Twin Cities. Since I often use this VRS provider – let’s call it ABC VRS – I happily[.....]