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The Sound of Silence (part 2 of 2 posts)
Summary: The continuing and sometimes strange adventures seeking hearing recovery I wrote about my sudden severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) in my left ear in a previous post. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you read that first. In this post I will share the latest updates, including a very strange twist in my… Read more
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The Sound of Silence (part 1 of 2 posts)
Summary: Appreciating Beethoven in a completely new way. Note: I added updates to the bottom of this post. But it became so long that I posted a follow-up article. I. Hearing and Music As a musician, my hearing is precious to me. I love listening to and playing music, and when I’m doing neither, during… Read more
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7. Madeira – An Adventure Awaits You!
Summary: A few tips about getting to and getting around Madeira. Our second week was spent on Madeira and we loved it! Madeira is one of two autonomous island regions of Portugal (the other being the Azores). It’s located about 700 km (430 miles) off the coast of Africa at nearly the same latitude as… Read more
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6. Speaking Finnish on Madeira
Summary: An unlikely meeting forms a new international friendship Forty years ago I spent one summer in Finland as an exchange student. It was in a small, beautiful town of about 30,000 called Savonlinna. Located in the Saimaa Lakeland area of Finland, the town is a series of interconnected islands with a beautiful 15th century fortress,… Read more
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