Frustration as hearing declines I was in my fifties when an audiogram revealed a mild hearing loss. Over several years, this descended from mild to moderate to severe hearing loss. [...]

A challenging childhood Treated for a rare childhood cancer in 1984, I was a guinea pig in the cancer ward during a time when childhood cancer survival rates were low.  [...]

During the COVID pandemic, I broke a promise I made to myself and went back to old bad habits. That is to say, I bluffed my way through conversations and [...]