The title says it: the two inventions that need to happen right away for the deaf community. We really just want to understand what is being said around us. Imagine, if someone who uses American Sign Language as his primary mode of communication was able to press a button on a smart phone or a…
Author: J. Parrish Lewis
J. Parrish Lewis was born and raised in Maryland. In his youth there, he and his brother had many adventures in the dogwood forests near his home. His nostalgia for these adventures has strongly influenced his characters, their relationships, and their perspective on the world they inhabit. He moved to California’s coast to earn his degree in communications and now lives with his family in the San Joaquin Valley. Lewis is profoundly deaf and uses American Sign Language to communicate. He enjoys hazelnut coffee, captioned movies, and walking his dog.
This is what I want to tell my son: You can’t be friends with that kid! I do not want to control who he can and can’t befriend, so I held my tongue, briefly. After a little thought, I said, “I want you to know, I don’t approve of the friendship you have with him…
As I was watching my wife goof around with my laughing kids this morning, I was thinking about how my wife and I are raising them, and how they’re not just our kids, but someone’s future family members. Several someones, or many someones, really. Somewhere out there, there just might be people that are going…
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The Search for the Holy Grail
We aren’t the knights of the Round Table, unless it’s the pizza place, but a holy grail we indeed seek. The grail, the legendary one, I think is more about seeking that tangible connection with the divine. In our case, a church community is more the grail we would seek to find. A gathering of…
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The anchor’s a weight
Weight, excess weight, is like an albatross in my life, weighing me down and trapping me in the middle of an unsympathetic ocean. It is an anchor, and not an attractive one. If I sound glum about it, it’s because I am. Thankfully, I am generally not the kind of person that lets the suckiness…
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Oodles of Doodles
I listened to my own self-preaching the other day and have been practicing creativity by making all these little doodles you see on the site, plus a lot of others that aren’t here. I also made an effort to do this first thing in the morning, rather than be on the computer right away. I…
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Coffee transfusions
I have tried numerous times to quit coffee because of the caffeine, but don’t tend to last longer than a month. Usually it’s just a few days. Intentions count for something, right? Since it seems the majority of America consists of caffeine addicts, including coffee drinkers like me, the usual response to my trying to…
…like I was in the last post, but… What is it with people being horribly filthy in public bathrooms? Recently I was with my boy in the bathroom stall, waiting for him to finish (he’s young and isn’t ready to be alone in there) when we noticed that of the people entering and leaving the…
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A poppyseed of reality
No apology. Minimalist posts allowed here. Anything goes. Two simple truths: Planning out meals in advance increases success rate. Plans go awry, especially if you are a mouse.