Around the same time Lisa gave us “Touch” as our next assignment I got a new laptop. This fancy device not only has a touch screen and a touch pad, but also a small pad that recognizes my fingerprint. I unlock the computer by touching it, so that got me

  What must it be like not to be able to hear any sounds, to be deaf? You can still make sounds with your speech apparatus, but you can’t hear yourself. This piece is a homage to Alexander Melville Bell’s phonetic alphabet that he devised in 1867 to help deaf

When I first read Karol’s prompt, images of sound waves came to mind right away. With a physicist husband and a very musical family this would have been my first choice for visualizing sound. But then I visited the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada,