Red's Wrap
Happiness. It's relative.
Category: Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant
Keep Walking, Look Straight Ahead
The observation that is sometimes advice and sometimes a bumper sticker for the deluded that ‘you are who you pretend to be’ struck me today as I was walking my dogs pretending to be the same person I’ve always been. I walk in my… Continue Reading “Keep Walking, Look Straight Ahead”
So, How Was Your Day?
‘You know, he’s like a BB in a bare room.’ My brother used to say that. Man, I love that. So descriptive. Roll here, hit the wall, roll there, hit the other wall. You have to have kind of a level house though for… Continue Reading “So, How Was Your Day?”
Life This Morning
My people don’t talk in the waiting room. They are already tired from asking directions at the front desk and figuring out the receptionist’s instructions. Once they are sitting down and waiting to be called, they want to be left alone. After all these… Continue Reading “Life This Morning”
Mine to Lose
Besides canoeing the hidden lakes of the Upper Peninsula and my Kindle crack habit, mood management is my primary avocation. It takes less time than it used to and I’m figuring out why. I’ve learned that I don’t need to let every bad feeling… Continue Reading “Mine to Lose”
Cochlear Promise
We bore a hole in your head for the implant and then we attach a receiver that looks like you’re radioing Mars, then you’ll hear things you haven’t heard in years and it will drive you crazy and then you’ll be better.
In Love with the Crutch
I’ve made my phone my best friend. We are inseparable. My phone speaks to me and I always understand what it’s saying. Oh, I don’t actually talk on the phone, have conversations, catch up on gossip, make business deals. It is impossible for me… Continue Reading “In Love with the Crutch”
August Saturday Night
The thing about blogging is when you start doing stuff so you can blog about it, you’ve pretty much won the Disingenuous Derby and ought to go sit down. I’m not there yet but it hits me at various times of the day that… Continue Reading “August Saturday Night”
Thursday Fabulous
Ah. What fineness. What glory. This Thursday. Here’s why. 1. It looks like I’m getting a cochlear implant in my right ear. This is a big amazing deal. Never mind that it’s prompted my husband to play videos from My Favorite Martian on his… Continue Reading “Thursday Fabulous”
Not Go
I won an award and I was too chicken to go claim it. That’s the long and short of it. The award event was in New York and I convinced myself that I couldn’t go to New York by myself, that my hearing disability… Continue Reading “Not Go”
I’m in Those Shoes
I’m not an autism mom but that doesn’t mean I don’t get it. I get it. The world and everything in it has to be okay for all of us – the halt and the lame, as a professor of mine used to say.… Continue Reading “I’m in Those Shoes”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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