Spin Control
Every time my wife asks me to come to her school and talk with the hearing students about deafness, I always get the following question: “Can deaf people drive?” I usually just reply “Yes” without telling them the following story: In the late fall of 1994, my brother Warren sold me his ’77 Ford Thunderbird [...]
The Church Interpreter And My Sex Life: Adventures In Parent-Child Communication
Somehow Mom found out that Karen and I were planning to move in together. That’s how I came to meet the five-dollar-per-hour church interpreter she hired to talk me out of it. Let me quickly say here that my mother is a good woman. This all happened ten years ago. We had our private Communication [...]
Maybe It Wouldn’t Be So Bad After All…
I’ve been carrying around this thought with me for the past few weeks. It’s a pretty interesting thought. A bit scary though when I peek a look. It’s a bit intense. It’s a bit confusing. This thought, it whispers boldly, “maybe it wouldn’t be so bad after all if Gallaudet closed.” When I first thought [...]
Marlee Matlin Goodness
I’ve been on a Marlee Matlin kick lately, digging up videos of her on YouTube. She’s an extraordinarily beautiful and talented actress who has gone farther than any other deaf person in Hollywood. Sure, she’s gotten criticism for speaking on occassion, but hey, I think we can get all past that now in the great [...]
Gallaudet Muggings Featured on DCist.com
Our very own Bobby Cox has written a story for one of Washington, D.C.’s leading blogs. This DCist story reviews the heady climate of crime around the Gallaudet campus, using last week’s mugging as a jumping-off point. For some perspective, I immediately asked Gallaudetians on my buddy list how they felt about it, and the [...]
Deaf-Run KFC in Cairo, Egypt
The Quietest KFC In Cairo by Geoff Bendeck, The GW Hatchet Online, Nov. 21, 2005 The first thing that goes through your head when you walk into the KFC in my neighborhood Dokki is not how long it will take for the food to give you a heart attack. The first thing you really realize [...]