Thoughts, ideas, and narratives from a deaf firefighter
I usually have to travel a fair bit for my work as Program Director for CEPIN. Usually, most of those travels deal with administrative things or find me attending/speaking at conferences.
Wednesday was no different. I was scheduled to attend a Summit on Emergency Preparedness and Special Needs Populations and then a gala reception [...]
Thanks, Karen for a great article: http://deafhhcareers.blogspot.com/2008/01/neil-mcdevitt-firefighter.html
Also: In my previous entry, I talked about “Whammo” moments. That article was published last Thursday by the City Paper. You can read it here: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/01/31/buzz-worthy
As much as my job requires me to have a fairly decent grasp of English and putting words together to coherently express a thought I may be having, I still have those moments of “Aww, I shoulda said…”
You know those moments? Moments when you’re just doing something completely different and WHAMMO! The PERFECT response hits [...]
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love music and my iPod. One of the interesting trends I’ve noticed for myself recently, is how I usually hate a song at first but after hearing it a few times on the iPod’s shuffle feature, I really start to like it.
One of these songs [...]