What I Hate About “Interpreting”

I put interpreting into quotes because I am using that term very loosely in this story. Put yourself in my shoes.
A service man comes to the house two hours earlier than scheduled to fix the water softener. You are trying to prepare lunch. You feel confident that your husband is capable of learning what is wrong [...]

A Deaf Centered Relationship

I came across this article titled “Marriage Between Deaf and Hearing Persons“. I think that having a deaf centered relationship will be fairly easy for Steve and I to develop. The challenge now is correcting the mistakes I’ve made in the last seven years with our hearing friends. How do you have a deaf centered [...]

New Blog Title

In line with my new direction in helping people understand, it was suggested I change the blog title to reflect the purpose of this blog. I want people to not only understand Steve’s world of deafness, but also understand my relationship to him. In other words, to gain insight into our world, to hopefully more [...]

Beyond Silence

From Amazon.com: “Product Description: Acclaimed by critics and audiences everywhere, BEYOND SILENCE is the powerful Academy Award(R)-nominated story of a young woman’s battle for independence and her deaf parents’ struggle to understand her gift for music. Given a clarinet by her free-spirited aunt, Lara is immediately consumed by a new passion her parents cannot begin [...]

Christmas

When I was little, my family had the usual Christmas traditions that most Christian families have. We kids participated in our Baptist church children’s Christmas program and Santa always came to the church party. Mom made all sorts of yummy Christmas cookies and candy that were given out to friends and neighbors. She tried to [...]

Helping People Understand

When our new Sunday School teacher invited me and Steve to attend his class two weeks ago (08/13), I tensed up. Fortunately, the Lord provides plenty of help or at least support if we rely on Him to provide. Someone on the deaf forum started a discussion (08/17) titled, “I really need some help. Deaf/hearing [...]

A New Look at the World

Someone on the AllDeaf.com forum posted this video clip:

I have been writing quite a bit lately about the challenges of being deaf. This video clip and a discussion on the forum has reminded me of the great blessing my husband is in my life. I agree with the young man in [...]

Two Different Worlds

More videos from Flashio.

Always Trust Your Deaf Husband

Steve and I were not planning on doing anything today, but the weather was so beautiful (53 degrees, sunny, and clear skies) that we decided to go out for lunch and then to Temple Square and see if we could sneak into the new movie Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration. This film had [...]

Bringing Two Worlds Together

The main reason I started this blog was to help my friends and family understand what it’s like for me and for my husband as we work together to bring his Deaf World and my Hearing World together. Perhaps it will help others who wish to develop better communication and understanding of people they know [...]