It all comes to FaceTime conversations with my parents. I’m so happy and so glad that we could see each other as well as converse with each other. FaceTime has been a godsend. In addition, Dad and I love to order and drink special coffees from Starbucks (right now, there’s a competitor for Starbucks –….
Now, all you readers know the story of my brief stay at Gallaudet.1 Some of you might think that I continue to hold a personal vendetta against Derek. Well, I’m just presenting my opinion as to why Derek was wrong in letting me go. It’s been more than 12 years since that fiasco, and the….
I had wanted to work at Gallaudet University for some time. For those who don’t know much about Gallaudet, it is one of only two undergraduate institutes for the Deaf that were mandated by the US Congress1 and it gained worldwide fame for its Deaf President Protest in 1988.2 The protest was the reason I….
As you recall from my blog on Bronx Science, I was discriminated by the chair of the mathematics department at Bronx Science because she didn’t think I was smart enough for a honors mathematics class.1 But that’s not the only time that I had been discriminated at any public school. The first time I was….
I enjoyed my times at the Bronx High School of Science from September 1979 to June 1982. The US News & World Report has acknowledged Bronx Science as one of the top high schools across the nation.1 I almost didn’t get into Bronx Science. In the middle of my eighth grade year at Ryan Junior….
“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….
Loretta was my classmate at the Lexington School for the Deaf from 1967 to 1973. She was an intelligent student with an expressive face. We went our separate ways in the Fall of 1973 when I was mainstreamed into the New York City (NYC) Public School System. What is so special about Loretta? We shared….
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….