Love, Daddy

My Annual Birthday Card
Love, Daddy BirthdayCard09Front,originally uploaded by kambricrews.Click the photo to see the answer inside of this year's handmade card sent to me by Dad for my birthday. What a treat to see it in my mailbox today. He never fails to crack me up.Letters and stories from my jailed deaf dad.
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 22 2009

Another Birthday
Love, Daddy Happy birthday to Dad. I can't call him to wish him well. And the lesson to be learned? Don't try to kill people.Letters and stories from my jailed deaf dad.
Media Language Tech Culture Sun, Feb 08 2009

A Petty Officer & A Gentleman
Love, Daddy Moving in to your horse's barn because your trailer got repossessed is what some folks might call a low point. It was time for a drastic change, so my parents moved us to the big city of N. Richland Hills, TX.It was there -- when I was 16 -- I met a 22 year old Sailor. It was love at first sight. It was greatest four weeks of my life. The Petty Officer from Akron, Ohi...
Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Jan 13 2009

Happy New Year
Love, Daddy I received the first letter of 2009 from Dad. (Click thumbnails for larger views. He dated it 2008 by mistake.)He starts off by commenting on an ad campaign I created around the tagline "Life's tough. Laugh more." I sent him a postcard (pictured below) that is part of the print campaign.Anyway, he liked the idea and thought the card was really cool. He also thought I...
Art and Storytelling Legal Culture Mon, Jan 12 2009

Proud Mommy
Love, Daddy Proud Mom, originally uploaded by kambricrews.I was cleaning up my computer and email for the New Year and came across this email from my mom.The only praise a daughter needs is that from her momma!Letters and stories from my jailed deaf dad.
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Jan 06 2009

Discussion Topic: Translating ASL
Love, Daddy Since ASL is not a written language, how should a conversation in ASL be written? As an exact ASL dialogue or translated into English? I have the same question about when captioning a video from ASL to English and English to ASL. Is there a preferred method? I'll save my own thoughts on the subject and kindly ask for yours. I'm sure this has been discussed elsewh...
Media Higher Education Culture Fri, Dec 26 2008

Cell-ebrating the Season
Love, Daddy Dad's jail cell will have all the smells and tastes of the holiday this year as long as I'm here to help.Last year, I didn't send money to his trust fund in time for him to indulge in the holiday spend that the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice allows inmates for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I felt so bad that he missed out on all the special holiday treats that the othe...
Media Higher Education Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, Dec 19 2008

Kiss Fist Magazine
Love, Daddy I'm featured on pages 36 & 37 of this month's issue of "Kiss Fist", a beautifully laid out magazine that caters to the Deaf Community. All contributors and those featured are either deaf or a CODA.  Check out the third issue here:   [link] be sure to bookmark it to read about all the wonderful things happening in the Deaf world.Letters and stories from my jailed ...
Media Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, Dec 06 2008

Hot Off the Presses
Love, Daddy Christian must be in the Dec/Jan 2009 issue of Cosmo Girl. You know how I know? He got a piece of hate mail complaining about a derogatory Jonas Brothers remark he made.I regularly submit jokes from comedians to an editor at Reader's Digest. When a quote is used, the comedian gets paid $100. Not bad! In the December 2008 issue, they used a dating anecdote by Katina Co...
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Nov 18 2008

30 Rock on Location
Love, Daddy Living in Queens near Kaufman Astoria and Silvercup Studios means shooting sometimes goes on in streets or area businesses. Two weeks back, I had to snake my way through a film crew that was setting up shop outside a few businesses which I frequent on a near daily basis.Ugly Betty & 30 Rock are two shows that have been in the neighborhood as of late so I assumed i...
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Oct 12 2008

Publisher's Weekly
Love, Daddy Publisher's Weekly,originally uploaded by kambricrews.My pal Rachel slipped me the actual issue of Publisher's Weekly that reported my book sale.  Reading it made me squeal like a teen. Seeing it online was cool, but in print? Priceless.Letters and stories from my jailed deaf dad.
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Oct 12 2008

I'm Comical Radio's "Achiever of the Year!"
Love, Daddy I was a guest on The Comical Radio a few days ago and my husband Christian was on a few days later. In their blog recap of the show (on page 69...heh, heh!) they said:"If you had to stop your father from stabbing your mother to death and then years later you were called to testify against him for attempting to murder his next wife, would you then send him letters in ...
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008

Recipe for Disaster?
Love, Daddy A long while ago, I recounted a jailhouse visit with Dad where I smuggled in a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit. (Read Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V of that story which isn't as long as all the parts would have you believe.)At the end of that visit, Dad had me pick up a bag of his belongings. Quick prison lesson: inmates are only allowed so many papers i...
Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, Jul 19 2008

Happy Father's Day
Love, Daddy It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. --Anne SextonI remember Dad as a handsome, impulsive young buck who lived life fast and furiously and was a bundle of fun. If this picture doesn't say it, then I'll give you two examples:When I was fifteen, Dad took me to the mall to shop for school clothes. He strode confidently through JC Penney’...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008

Embryonic Selection
Love, Daddy My friend, comedian Dan Allen, forwarded me this interesting article by Gaby Hinsliff and Robin McKie published in The Guardian. "This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?From embryo selection to abortion, fertility treatment to stem cell research, medical advances have created a furious ethical debate. Now MPs must decide how far science should be al...
Audism Legal Sun, Mar 09 2008

Family Hour Re-Cap & Weird Traits I Picked Up
Love, Daddy I'm sick this week so won't be telling any stories on the "Family Hour with Auntie Sara" show. So, here's a little re-cap and something I will tell on next week's show instead.Over the past few Fridays, I've told stories about: my pot smoking parents, weed growing brother and Charlie Brown, my marijuana plant eating horse; my Dad's dating advice to me when I was fifte...
Culture Fri, Nov 16 2007

It's a Small (Deaf) World, After All
Love, Daddy When I was about 19, I moved to Ohio and worked as a teller during the day while attending paralegal school at night. An older deaf couple we'll call the Wilsons regularly visited the bank but never came to my window. Finally, one day I saw them come in and I waved them over. Of course, the first question the husband asked was how I knew ASL."Mother, father, [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Sep 11 2007

ASL in the Raw
Love, Daddy Saturday night I saw a childhood friend who was in New York on vacation. Our grandfathers and our parents grew up together at the deaf school in Oklahoma, and my brother & I grew up with him and his sister. The eight of us, at one time, were inseparable even moving into the woods of Montgomery together and eventually buying matching trailers. We talked and talked and [...]
Culture Tue, Sep 11 2007

Oh, What a Feeling! Toyota!
Love, Daddy This is one of my favorite pictures of Dad taken Winter '86 in front of our Toyota. It captures everything I love about him.Dad taught me how to drive in this truck. Well, technically he finished teaching me what Mom had started. She wouldn't let me drive the Toyota -- it was the nicest vehicle we had ever owned and I was only 13. Instead Mom took me out in our old VW [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 30 2007

Reporter's Record
Love, Daddy In part of my research for my book I ordered the court reporter's transcript from Dad's trial and punishment phase. I received it this morning and just finished reading it. For the first time I read the testimony of the officers who responded to the 911 call and interceded in Dad's assault against Gloria*. For the first time I got the account of the medical examiner [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Legal Tue, Aug 28 2007

Warrior for the Deaf
Love, Daddy I received a 25 page letter (!@!%#$!!!) from Dad yesterday. He has been in solitary confinement since Christian and I saw him in July for assaulting an officer. He insists the guard is trumping up charges and instigated the entire incident in the first place. Dad has become a "warrior for the deaf [inmates]" and spends most of his day in the library researching [...]
Audism Legal Mon, Aug 27 2007