This is me, Liz Thompson with my Hearing Dog, Toby Bear. I’m an author, columnist and freelance writer.

Thank you for visiting my website. Years ago I was taught to write what I know. Over the years, this has become real to me and I write from the heart. About what I know and love.

I was born on what would become an auspicious date, 9/11. 50 years to the day after my birth, I was in the newsroom when I witnessed the second plane hit the Twin Towers in NYC.

Growing up in Westerville, Ohio, I lived the small town America life for nearly 20 years. I attended Bowling Green State University for two years and later in my life, I earned another year of college credits with Ohio University distance learning. I worked for 28 years at all levels of secretarial work with a big emphasis on computers.

In the mid-1990s, my hearing was close to deafness and I floundered as a secretary. But I did learn advocacy for myself and others with disabilities.

In 1998, Suburban News Publications published my first column. I continue that to this day with a two-year break. When we lived in Arizona form 2003-2005, I wrote a community column for The Arizona Republic newspaper.

In 2000, I became a reporter for SNP and learned to write quickly, accurately and truthfully about what other people know. Hearing news and translating it into news stories was a challenge that was exhilerating for me. My editor, Martin Rozenman, was patient with my hearing loss and my being a 50-year-old newbie reporter, and he taught me well. Be sure and read the Foreword he wrote for my book at this link: http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/DBDbookpage.html

In 2002, I got my first cochlear implant that restored 95 percent of my hearing in the one ear. In 2009, I got an implant in my other ear and the world of sound really opened up for me. But I am still deaf when the batteries die.

Day by Day, The Chronicles of a Hard of Hearing Reporter, was published in 2008 by Gallaudet University Press. What a fun process that was. So much so, I’m at it again with one book on its way to completion and several more in the planning stages.

Currently, I have a new book with a working title of God Whispers: Nudges, Fudges, and Butterfly Moments in contract with Jebaire Publishing. Several other ideas are circling my head as well.

Please comment and come back often as my website grows.

Thanks for listening!

Liz Thompson