This article originally appeared in Get a Z Life Magazine. When you put a group of women together to work, what do you get? Ask anyone this … [Continue reading]
Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
February 14, 2016
(Reposted from my Facebook page, February 13, 2016) My (deaf) daughters and I went out for dinner, and my four-year-old asked me why it rained. My … [Continue reading]
sComm: An Update
July 27, 2015
Read my original article and open letter (available in ASL and English) before reading the below. Warning: This article includes … [Continue reading]
Deaf Life Magazine Person of the Month
May 14, 2015
How awesome. At the risk of tooting my own horn (does it make a difference if I don't hear the horn?), I learned that I had been chosen as Deaf Life … [Continue reading]
An email from sComm
April 2, 2015
My hosting company sent me this earlier today. Hi Trudy - We were contacted by the below company with the stated concern. Can you address this … [Continue reading]
Speech given at a high school in 2015
April 1, 2015
The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this … [Continue reading]
Open letter to Jason Curry, sComm CEO
March 30, 2015
(To learn more about this open letter, go here.) March 30, 2015 Mr. Curry: Thank you for the video you released on Friday, March 27, … [Continue reading]
Doing More Harm than Good
March 27, 2015
(See the bottom of this page for a link to sComm's response to this and my follow-up response in both ASL and English. I have also posted updates at … [Continue reading]
Remembering Chuck Baird (1947-2012)
February 22, 2015
I first met Chuck Baird when I was 10. My parents took me to see King of Hearts, a magnificent production by the National Theatre of the Deaf. To this … [Continue reading]
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
December 18, 2014
I first saw the term DEAF-HEART at an interpreting conference back in the early 2000s. There was a heated discussion in a workshop, and an interpreter … [Continue reading]