I stared at my phone, willing it to transform into a magical portal I could step through, have the necessary conversation and slip back into reality. I scoured the website for a customer service email address, a live chat feature, an option to send a message via carrier pigeon, and even glanced around to see …
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Lunch Bunch
We have a running list – currently 50+ items – of commonalities, coincidences, similarities, and links to one another that we have uncovered over the past 8 months. We should no longer be surprised at the unveiling of another through-line tying us together, but the discovery that two of our individual friends were former colleagues …
The Challenges of Teaching
As a career educator, I have gotten accustomed to the rhythm of children’s voices with their missing teeth that causes softer sounds to whistle, their butchered developmental /r/ sounds that rival my own Boston accent, and screeching high decibel increases and fast rate of speech when they’re especially excited or agitated. I have the advantage …
Taking a Knee
This blog post is dedicated to the absolute best post-surgical hospital roommate anyone could have ever asked for – the one and only Rita G. The day finally came where walking, standing, sleeping, sitting, driving, running, and even a well styled sashaying down the hallway became completely unbearable. I was strapped into a custom made …
Eyes on the Prize
I sat there, blurry eyed, and heard a voice telling me over the sounds of clicking wheels that I needed to decide if “1 or 2” was a better fit for my vision in my left eye. Imagine my surprise when wheel 2 was a better fit and it came with the bonus of the …
Let’s Get A Physical…
I reach the heavy door, take a deep breath, and then push it open while humming the theme from “Rocky” to myself as I step into the “ring” – in this case, the office of my primary care practitioner. I am about to navigate my own personal title match – the bobbing, weaving, and level …
Hearing Aid Care…A Look Back in Time
Mr. Connelly was a kindly, older gentleman with watery blue eyes and an impressively smooth bald head with wisps of white hair. He had the air of a storybook Grandpa – in his presence you felt compelled to walk to a park bench and throw crumbs to the pigeons. Mr. Connelly, to me, was the …
Fire Pits…Are the Pits…
I have never been one to seek out or excitedly participate in sitting around a fire due to my general disdain for camping, which has historically been a more common place to gather around a roaring flame. I love a toasted marshmallow on a clean and sterilized skewer – no off the ground sticks for …
Snow Daze.
I annually curse my family for making it all the way from Italy on a disease ridden, treacherous boat ride only to stop in New England, where the weather is horrendous. You made it this far, you couldn’t have gone a little further south where it’s warm? Yes, I’m being an insolent, bratty, privileged little …
Colds.
It usually starts with a mildly irritated but quickly escalating sore throat – that’s typically the first symptom that tips me off that a virus has taken hold and is about to wreak havoc on my entire system. (Although, admittedly, this last round I was convinced that the sore throat Brad and I both had …
Deaf, But Not Really: My Story 