“I love you, chick!” This was the line I spoke during a play at my old camp, Pathfinder County Day Camp, in Montauk, New York. It took place during the summer of 1974. Everyone watching the play was moved by the whole acting cast. My sister Jenn saw it (after Jenn and I got home….
I have been driving a car since when I was 18 years of age. No big deal, right? Some of you may say I can’t hear behind myself, and yet I continue to drive. So what? Even my wife and adult daughters think it is a big deal. They love to criticize my driving, especially….
It was the summer of 1990. My dad was the Vice President of the New York Society for the Deaf (NYSD). One day, he told me that there’d be a celebratory occasion lasting several days in London. The celebration would include a meeting with Princess Diana. I asked him, What celebration? He answered, “To celebrate….
Yes, I accidentally ‘stole’ Derek Jeter’s plane seat. That occurred in February 1997, and I wrote about it 13 years later. It was published in MLB Insiders Club Magazine,1 which, I believe, is now defunct. I’ve taken the liberty of reposting the story here. When I saw Mr. Jeter walking towards me, I couldn’t believe….
I had been a student at the Lexington School for the Deaf for seven years, starting in January 1967 and ending in June 1973 (I still have those yearbooks – a sentimental and valuable part of my personal library). Afterwards, I was mainstreamed into the New York City Public School System. At that time, the….
I love to read action/adventure comic books and graphic novels, especially war and Old Western ones. These reading pleasures have given me a lot of imagination, especially when I go daydreaming. I could participate in certain adventures such as scuba diving,1 but I could never participate in any battle. It’s not because I’m afraid, but….
I loved working at the Harvard Crimson. I was a photography editor (and later an associate photography chair) at the Crimson for three years (i.e., Fall 1983 – Spring 1986). My first mentor there was Nevin, the son of a very well-known movie critic at NBC’s Today Show – I first met Nevin during the….
I spent a bit over five years at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of many institutes at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. My NIDCD career began in October 1998, the time when there were just two of us, Denise and me. We moved from Ann Arbor,….
It happened in the summer of 2000 when my girls were about 15 months old. All my life, whenever I was or am with my late grandparents, my parents, and my siblings, and we’d have a family conversation during a meal or during a gathering, one or more of my family members would make every….
I had not had any contact with my Aunt Rima for more than 50 years – she divorced my late paternal uncle, Uncle Alfred in 1967. Somehow, two years ago, she electronically contacted me, and this contact had helped me close some gaps in my family tree. Since then, we’ve kept in touch and have….