Lost and Found: My Cochlear Implant Life

I retired from teaching over a year ago. It's been wonderful for my health. My blood pressure is lower. My weight is steady. My feet and...

I didn't start this blog because I thought I'd gather a lot of readers. It was mostly a way for me to cope with my sudden hearing lo...

This world is an amazing place. No matter how sorrowful the living may become, life can be found pretty much everywhere we look. One only...

My husband and I made the difficult decision to have our German Shepherd euthanized yesterday. Though we felt a great amount of turmoil abou...

Hearing is something that most people take for granted. Humans are quite noisy. And much of the noise we've created can cause permane...

This afternoon, I donned a hat and went outside to weed my garden beds. A much younger me had put in a too-big-for-me-now garden bed at the ...

It's not that I've been neglecting this blog, but oftentimes life just plugs along in an uneventful litany of days and weeks and mon...