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My dear sister was eighty years and twenty-one days on earth. Marjorie Diane Hale Callis was totally deaf at birth, and she met everyday challenges with a beautiful smile. Her birthday was February 2, and she loved groundhogs. "Di" raised four happy, healthy, hearing CODA boys mostly by herself...

:welcome:, Amy. I hope you enjoy AllDeaf. :D

Since the Patriots aren't my super bowl champs, I think I' gonna whine, turn over cars, and loot stores until the Seahawks are super bowl chaps like God intended. :giggle:

I'm decent with morals. So are millions of Americans like me who're tired of indecent amoral protesters whining because they didn't get their way. Those are the snowflakes who need to wake up and read and obey the US constitution.

Oh, yeah. Back when I was a hard-of-hearing beekeeper, putting my hat with the net on and off in the fields with lots of high grass lost me more hearing aids than my insurance could keep up with. :pissed: :welcome:, and I hope you find it!

Tousi and Hex are correct: labels are less important than the people who have varying degrees of hearing loss. No deafness or level of hearing is exactly the same. If you're weary of explaining your particular condition, don't do it. But it's not wise to misinform people who care about you with...

Calvin, is that a real photograph? I always thought Santa's sleigh had runners, not wheels, and there were eight reindeer, not five. Live and learn. :D :bowlol: :giggle:

I'm late, but for those who celebrate the season, merry Christmas or happy Hanukkah. For those who don't, I hope you had fun saying, "Bah, humbug!" :applause:

I'm not so proud of being deaf per se as I'm proud of my abilities to cope with its problems--working on speechreading 'cause every hearie communicated differently, keeping up on the latest ASL (including regional differences) to help when meeting other deafies, staying abreast of latest...

I wrote this before reading all the replies. These are my views, but I respect everything others said. Many said them better than I did. :redface:

:welcome:, Ericka. I agree with DeafNerdMomm about labels, but when discussing degrees of anything, you need common terms. For instance, if carpenters talk about tools, they need specific names--not "that thingie that pulls nails" or "that wood-shaving gizmo." For most deaf people, "hearing...

I'm saddened and gladdened all at the same time. "Santa" did a tremendous good deed to ease a child's last thoughts. :bye: :angel:

Ha ha ha. Every boy's dream was a Red Ryder BB gun. I sure wanted one. :rifle:

We don't go to public theaters because there's no subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing in our small town. Instead, during this season, we watch favorite Christmas DVDs at home on our 60-inch screen. They include all three of The Santa Clause films, both Home Alone movies, White Christmas...

I am thankful for AllDeaf. It's my only contact with deaf friends. :deaf::gossip::grouphug: :h5: I'm also thankful for my wonderful :applause: spouse, interpreter, and advocate. I couldn't live without her. :angel: :ily: I'm thankful my mystery novel Deaf Takes a Holiday is selling well enough...

Whatdidyousay! must really like old Nazis to want his president-elect to change hairstyles and grow a mustache like his hero. :rofl:;)

My fear of California leaving the union and its millions of support funds is all the freeloaders will move north into Oregon. Awful! We already have too many freeloaders. :(

Lauren, thank you for letting us know. Botti and I have been friends since she joined AllDeaf. We used to play a sign-language guessing game a few years ago. I will miss her terribly. :(

My sincere salute to all fellow veterans here at AllDeaf. I was in the U.S. Army 1959-1970 and served as a small-arms instructor in California with 298th Military Police, in Germany with the 404th Military Police, in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, and a second tour in Vietnam with the 173...

Sorry to disagree, but my spouse has nine grandchildren. All but one are smug millennials who think they are entitled. Four are from a well-to-do family and five are from a poorer family, but all expect to have everything without any effort on their part. Only one lives 600 miles from home and...