Love, Daddy

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

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 hide this blog flag post bookmark post