First Date

I met my husband, Steve, on the internet about three years before we were married. We chatted for a few weeks and then lost touch. I had chatted with so many men, he was just another one of them. After a few months, I started chatting with another man whose name is Steve and is [...]

Finding a Job (or Not)

When Steve and I were married, he sold the home he had lived in all of his life, quit his job, found a new home for his brother, and moved to Utah. After spending many years chasing men away, I could hardly believe anyone would make that kind of sacrifice for me. He was concerned [...]

Struggles at Church

Steve has been deaf since seven years old, when he contracted meningitis. The antibiotics caused a 97% hearing loss in both ears. Because his parents could not afford a deaf school, he attended a public school and was expected to understand and learn along with the other children. The experience turned him off to any [...]

You Have to be Deaf to Understand – A poem written by Willard J. Madsen, professor at Gallaudet University

What is it like to “hear” a hand?
You have to be deaf to understand.
What is it like to be a small child,
In a school, in a room void of sound –
With a teacher who talks and talks and talks;
And then when she does come around to you,
She expects you to know what she’s said?
You have [...]