Feelings and anger, when bottled up, turn into explosives. Isn’t it funny how you bottle up all your emotions until that bottle starts overflowing and then you let all those emotions out on someone who doesn’t deserve it and is a partially deaf.  Communicate. Even when it’s uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways … Continue reading Bottled Feelings

Feeling good about yourself? Ask a kid to draw a picture of you. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on walls. No artist tolerates reality. Procrastination, the art of keeping up with yesterday. Almost every cartoonist, when he’s sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch … Continue reading Art imitating Life

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. A panic attack goes from 0 to 100 in an instant. It’s halfway between feeling like you’ll faint and feeling like you’ll die. I stand behind my decision not to panic. A quick way to … Continue reading Panic at the Disco

A miracle isn’t one big event you’re waiting to happen. You witness a million little ones every day without even realizing it. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you. Don’t wait for a miracle, … Continue reading Waiting for a Miracle

Thank you for shouting at me said no deaf person ever. The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. Being deaf does not make you dumb, just as hearing does not make you smart. Success listens only to applause, to all else it is deaf. In every good marriage, … Continue reading Tone Deaf