Victims of old-time English teachers. From a recent press release: “We all yen for the taste of Grandmother’s cooking but fear the calories, fat, sodium and all the other No-No’s about which we’re finding.”
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“It was frustrating for our hearing president when all the deaf would get real excited and start signing and the hearing president would be looking and looking and he couldn’t understand what was going on,” says Bob Radtke of Ridge Lutheran Church’s ministry with the deaf and hearing impaired (Church and Community Forum, August). “Then there would be times when the hearing would get all excited and they would start talking, and we would be frustrated too….It was like two different discussions, the hearing discussion and the deaf discussion. …My life for many, many years was with the hearing people until I met my wife. She’s profoundly deaf. When I started to date with her, I told her, you know, ‘Let’s double date,’ and I’d bring my hearing friends and it was terrible. I would be talking with my hearing friends and she would be there with nothing to do. Finally, I had to make my own decision to drop my hearing friends. It’s very difficult to get the two worlds together.”
“Aspects of the [new Harold Washington] public library are not conducive to families with young children,” according to the newsletter Moments (November). “The escalators are narrow, so forget trying to negotiate a stroller up the moving stairs. At the same time, you can’t take a single elevator from the first floor to the top. You must transfer on the third level–a minor inconvenience. And if a stroller is necessary, be sure to bring your own–the Library does not have any to borrow or rent.”
