“I was already eager for the hospital stay to end. No more visiting nurses asking me soft-spoken questions that the ringing noise (in my ears) wouldn’t let me hear.” -Chapter One, Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom One year ago, I published Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom. The book shares the six years of … Continue reading
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My Holiday Gift to You
I can’t thank you enough for your concern and prayers with the recent illnesses in my family. With the sickness now at bay, I am able to focus once again on book projects. A Christmas gift to you for being such a loyal reader of my blog is this: Through Dec. 20, get my book … Continue reading
Want to be My Motivation Partner?
A long time ago, I began writing the sequel to my first book, Lip Reader. With the first draft half complete, my laptop locked up and died. I thought the sequel died with it. Then I found an email I’d sent to myself, and it had the manuscript attached. My book had been saved. But … Continue reading
Ten Things I Want My Children (And You) to Know
My book, Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom, is dedicated to my husband and our three children. And for good reason. All they have ever known is a mom who must read lips to hear them. A mom who asks for sentence repeats. A mom who answers many a question with, “Huh? What was that?” … Continue reading
Do You Blog? Join the Lipreading Mom Book Blog Tour in April and May
To celebrate the recent launch of Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom, I am going on a book tour…a cyber one. During the months of April and May, I am asking all my blog followers who have a blog of their own to consider hosting me as a guest on your site. This would consist … Continue reading
Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom Available March 22
In Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom, I explore the roller coaster ride of progressive hearing loss, which was diagnosed two months after my first child was born. I was 27. Three healthy kids later, my hearing loss has accelerated. Sounds I once took for granted – the doorbell, smoke alarms, baby cries – are … Continue reading
Lipreading Mom’s Service Dog Finally Has a Name
After two months of living as a nameless yet lovable canine, our Service Dog finally has a name—thanks to one Lipreading Mom reader. And the winning name for our furry friend is… Congratulations to Monica Hood from Ohio for suggesting the name SERVANE which, she writes, means “service of God.” My 8-year-old daughter, who owns … Continue reading
New Book Coming from Lip Reading Mom
I am excited to announce that my second book, Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom, will be published by CrossRiver Media. What an honor to share my personal hearing loss story with you! How does a mom of three survive parenting while balancing the daily flunctuations in her hearing? Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom … Continue reading
Activist/Author Arlene Romoff Changes the Captioning World
As a teenager, Arlene Romoff began to progressively lose her hearing. It became a profound loss several years later. In 1997, she received her first cochlear implant and a second one in 2008. The author of two memoirs, Hear Again: Back to Life with a Cochlear Implant and Listening Closely: A Journey to Bilateral Hearing, … Continue reading
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