About 10 years ago I noticed I was having a hard time hearing people, so I had my ears checked. I assumed they’d do a thorough cleaning and find some wax build up and I’d leave with squeaky-clean ears. Instead, I was informed that I had major hearing loss in both ears. “WHAT?” I asked incredulously (which I said partly because I was shocked, and party because I couldn’t hear).
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The year was 1978 and I was living in Jacksonville, Florida, in a house at the edge of a quiet residential neighborhood. Songs from Saturday Night Fever were still in heavy rotation on the radio and I would ride through the neighborhood on my Stars-and-Stripes bicycle, singing along to the BeeGees at the top of my lungs (nobody told me that wasn’t cool, so I was in bliss). The leaves never really change color in that part of Florida, but Halloween was only a week away and I was so excited.
I learned quite a few interesting hand gestures from my parents. Most of them aren’t fit for polite company, mind you. I also don’t believe my parents intended to teach them. More than likely I just picked them up with a child’s crafty ability to mimic what they see. In later years I suppose some of those hand gestures might even be considered useful. A man needs to know which finger to wave at another driver when he gets cut off in traffic, for example.
One of my favorite things about articles online is reading the comments by readers that follow. People get so heated; sometimes it feels like they are about to start throwing virtual blows.
This week I learned something that I thought I knew already but had to really give it more thought...and that is....all Mamas are created equal.