How Do You Say Blue in Sign Language
Have you ever watched a sunset paint the sky in shades of sapphire and felt a wordless ache in your chest? I remember the first time I saw a…
How Do You Say Be Quiet in Sign Language
(And Why the Whisper That Silences the World Is the Same in Almost Every Culture) I was twenty-three, sitting in a packed Tokyo subway at rush…
How to Say Jesus in Sign Language
A few years ago I watched a deaf Filipino teenager sign her testimony in complete silence. When she reached the moment of salvation, her hands…
How to Say Hungry in Sign Language
I still remember the moment clearly. I was volunteering at a refugee center in Berlin, surrounded by children from Syria, Afghanistan,…
How Do You Say Hello in Different Languages
I still remember the moment like it was yesterday. I was 19, standing nervously outside a tiny bakery in Munich with a crumpled phrasebook in…
How Do You Say Thank You in Sign Language
I still remember the moment clearly. I was 19, backpacking alone through rural Japan, completely lost on a mountain trail as dusk fell. My…
How to Say Beautiful in Sign Language
I still remember the moment clearly. I was in a crowded café in Paris, watching a deaf couple across the room. They weren’t speaking. They…
How to Say All Done in Sign Language
I still remember the moment clearly. My toddler nephew, barely two years old and not yet speaking in full sentences, proudly stacked the last…
How to Say Goodnight in Sign Language
Last night I tucked my daughter into bed after her first school sleepover. She was buzzing with stories, but the moment the light clicked off,…
How Do You Say Bless You in Sign Language
I was 19, studying abroad in Paris, when I had the sneeze that changed everything. Midway through a crowded metro car, I let out an explosive…