ON HAND: A harsh reality

By |2024-12-07T21:24:44-05:00February 13, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. Reality is harsh sometimes, especially if you're a newcomer to a [...]

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ON HAND: Deaf person coming!

By |2024-12-07T21:24:44-05:00February 4, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. A friend of mine told me once he always gets irritated [...]

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ON HAND: Praise a Deaf person’s ASL today

By |2024-12-07T21:24:44-05:00January 30, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. A few weeks ago, I told a 16-year-old boy that his [...]

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ON HAND: Being a basketball widow

By |2024-12-07T21:24:45-05:00January 22, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. We're well into basketball season, and I've become a basketball widow [...]

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ON HAND: Handicapped license plates

By |2024-12-07T21:24:45-05:00January 16, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. The State of Virginia apparently believes that deaf people walk using [...]

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ON HAND: VRS vs. Internet Relay

By |2024-12-07T21:24:45-05:00January 2, 2004|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. I feel old-fashioned, because I prefer using Internet relay rather than [...]

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ON HAND: Big Captioning Brother is watching you

By |2024-12-07T21:24:46-05:00December 25, 2003|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. Is it just me, or does the MCI commercial on television [...]

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ON HAND: Odds and ends

By |2024-12-07T21:23:47-05:00December 19, 2003|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. These are actual incidents that took place within the past few [...]

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ON HAND: Deaf of Deaf

By |2024-12-07T21:23:48-05:00December 12, 2003|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. I can't count how many times I've been at gatherings, sitting [...]

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ON HAND: Hearing dogs

By |2024-12-07T21:23:48-05:00December 3, 2003|

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. As I walked into Target, I saw a beautiful yellow lab [...]

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