New Op-Ed in today's Guardian

Today's my 60th birthday! As an unexpected present, the Guardian published my new essay on embracing sign language and the phrase "hard of hearing" over "hearing impaired."

I write to you today from Essaouira, Morocco, where I am on vacation for my sixtieth birthday. (Sixty. I know. Crazy.) Meaning sixty years ago today, on March 11, 1966, I was born in Boston, MA, to a mother whose insurance would only cover the cost of my birth, not the epidural, so she had to raw dog it.

Our second floor room in this local riad, which co…