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I Ain't Black and You Ain't White - by Bill Russo

Why Are You Angry, When It's Me That's Going Deaf

by Bill Russo


Open Letter To Almost Everyone
Who Ever Has Spoken With 
A Person Losing His or Her Hearing:  

Please stop yelling at me just because I am going deaf!

It is an illness and it is not my fault.  It is very embarrassing to have a bunch of people shouting at you.  Hearing aids cost a great deal of money and are not covered by Medicare and other insurances.

They are also not the panacea that folks with good hearing think they are.  Further, many of us have painful conditions going on inside the ear canal that make the use of such devices the next of kin to 'torture'.  

"Why don't you get your ears checked?" is another thing that triggers frustration in the hard of hearing.  Do these people think that we go to our doctor and say, "By the way Doc, I'm losing my hearing so make sure NOT to check my ears!"

A large number of individuals with hearing difficulties can actually hear you fairly well, if they can see you.  By a combination of reading your lips and hearing most of what you say in a normal voice, you can communicate well with most of us.

Screaming at us behind our backs or off to the side where we cannot see you, might be appropriate if we are on railroad tracks and a train is coming, otherwise it is not.  

Booming at us in a stentorian voice and treating us as stubborn children only makes you frustrated and us angry, embarrassed and less likely to want to participate in society.

Frankly, I would rather be left out of a conversation than have you yelling at me.  

"I'm talking to you!  Do you get it!" and other pejoratives that I frequently hear, border on insulting.  

I'm losing my hearing folks, not my I.Q.  

That's my rant for the day.  I will try to be a little more patient with you, if you will do the same.

"DID YOU HEAR ME?  

IF NOT, PUT YOUR EAR RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR DEVICE 

AND I WILL SCREAM INTO IT!!!!"

Homophones are not made by Apple Corporation

by Bill Russo

Note to students, would-be writers, bloggers, face-bookers and others - perhaps even an entire generation which has never had to listen to my fifth grade teacher, Miss Cluff, issue the command, "Write the following sentence on your paper 500 times: .......... (Cape Cod girls don't use combs, they groom their hair with Codfish Bones)."   

If you rite/write, hare/hair, their/there 500 times with a real pen or pencil, you will begin to understand that a HOMOPHONE has nothing to do with Apple Corporation or people's prejudice about the sexuality of others!  Get it rite/right ! !! !!! !!!!

Coming: The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle Audiobook

     In the roadway through the eerie "High Tees" in Raynham, Massachusetts, at the top of the Bridgewater Triangle; - some 'thing' lurked.  Several minutes after midnight, it hid unseen in thick woods behind a quiet residential street.  A man and his dog were nearly home after a walk along the edge of a feeder pond of  the Hockomock Swamp.

     The silence of the early morning was broken by an eerie call floating through the still air:  "Keer.  Keer!  Ee wan chu!  Keer!"

      A creature from the swamp was summoning the man.  His bulky 80 pound Rotweiller-Shepherd mix was crying in fear: and yet the hairy beast did no more than beckon them with the call, "Keer, Keer,  Ee wan chu.  Chu, Chu.  Ee wan chu."

     And so began Bill Russo's meeting with the Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle.  It is a story that has been told in the award winning documentary, The Bridgewater Triangle, as well as on television in Monsters and Mysteries in America and in the one hour program, "America's Bermuda Triangle".

      The story is also recounted, along with a number of other odd tales, in the book, The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle, ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OEZK8IQ )

     Production is underway now in New York City of the Audiobook version of The Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle. Nationally known voice artist Brad Goldsmith is in charge of the project.

      His voicing of the creature calling to Bill Russo and his dog Samantha, is so stunning, it will have listeners looking over their shoulders making sure they too are not being called by the swamp thing.

     The Audio will be available in the Amazon Store as well as on Audible, and on Apple's I-tunes. It is expected to be completed by November.   Readers of this post are eligible to get a free copy for review purposes by emailing Bill Russo at Billrrrrr@yahoo.com

     The review books are available on a first come first serve basis.

Grandparents Day - Send me a Cigar and a Bottle of Jack

by Bill Russo



September 13 is National Grandparents Day

Send me a good five cent cigar..................

Or send me  a bottle of Jack...............................

 Or send me a  ticket to a Mexican Cantina.......

Or send me Helen Mirren.........

But don't send me flowers!!!!!!   I am way too young to be this old!

Ghostly Gardener Forces People to Abandon Their Flower Boats

Copyright photo by Bill Russo

by Bill Russo





This is a 'Joseph Boat'.

Once there were thousands of these flower boats on

 Cape Cod. 


 Now there are perhaps only one or two left. Is it because a ghostly gardener in a 'peruke' comes once a year on the anniversary of his death, to pick the flowers and scare the townspeple senseless? Find out in Chapter Two of the Creature From the Bridgewater Triangle; in a tale called 'The Joseph Boats, or the Reverend Metcalfe gets Two Wishes'. It's just 99 cents on Amazon and is number 60 in its sales niche.