In the haunting, beautifully told stories of Sign Languages, James Hannah depicts a very real world in which people face the limitations of language as they seek communion with one another. On a cross-country car trip, a father realizes he does not have the words to talk to the six-year-old daugh...
How are you and Marta? Here all seems well enough (only I’m suffering from the last month of summer heat). B. is relieved she’s finished here with no summer session and, at Harper State next semester, only two courses. The children are fine. As usual, J. is still full of music and song; L. suffer...
I say, looking sadly into your bedroom mirror. “I never thought I’d get a gut.” “You haven’t got a gut.” “I have. Look, it’s there.” “Where?” “There.” “That’s a stomach.” ...