Big Picture, Small Picture
I can’t tell you how many times, over the years, I’ve heard the phrase, “Look at the big picture.” Either as advice given to me or to others, the phrase is well-worn and fits fine and sharply in many...
View ArticleThe Good News Is…
If this crazy Covid year has taught us anything, it is that we, as brain injury survivors, are not nearly the only ones who find our lives getting flipped and flopped overnight into something we don’t...
View ArticleFor The Veterans Among Us
Hello to all. A special nod, this day, to those who have been thrown into our brain injury community because of their military service. It is Veterans’ Day and I just wanted to reach out to those of...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving and the Packet of Seeds
I’m not going to apologize for posting my Thanksgiving wishes two days early. In a year like 2020 has been, seems all bets are off and I think any measure of thanksgiving is welcome. I don’t think...
View Article133 And Counting
At the conclusion of each year, I receive statistics on where my blog has traveled and all sorts of interesting facts about it. Over the years, this blog has traveled to 133 countries around our...
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Practice Your Past
I’ve been at this brain injury thing coming up on 25 years soon. As I am older than many of you, I can share with keen certainty that age-related memory dysfunction, coupled with all the brain injury...
View ArticleWhat If?
One of the things I like about playing Words With Friends on Facebook is that my opponent cannot see all my tiles. They don’t know if my word is the best word I could have played. There is no one...
View ArticleWhat Is The Cost Of Change?
We’ve all heard how change can be so hard for most of us. Those of us with brain injuries often cannot navigate or invite or suffer change because, for so many of us, routine is a helpful tool in our...
View ArticleCelebrating 25 Years! Yayayayay!
As soon as I hit 56 two weeks ago, I knew my 25th year of being brain injured was just around the corner. Twenty-five years. Proud as hell. One day, God willing, I will have lived more years as a...
View ArticleIt’s Done When It’s Done
We seem to get ourselves into trouble when we decide to place deadlines on events and things and people who aren’t playing by the same set of rules. I’ve watched couples break up because the woman...
View ArticleBackward Forward
While early therapies for speech, physical and occupational improvement are awesome kick-offs to our recoveries, they often lack the particular focus of our actual problems. Those problems we face and...
View ArticleCastles Out Of Sand
I’m sure you’ve seen them….glorious castles in the sand. Pictures near the beach, gulls overheard, sun shining brightly…. While most of us created modest block or bucket structures out of sand on the...
View ArticleWhat Is Your Message?
“The Martian” starring Matt Damon was a surprise to me. It came out like 5 or 6 years ago and I didn’t see it at the theatre but I catch it on TV, from time to time. It’s about an astronaut on Mars,...
View ArticleDeadlines
One of the hardest parts of being a book writer is, by and large, there are no deadlines. No one tells you when the book is done. It’s hard to decide when it’s “good enough” to let fly because it’s...
View ArticleWe Can Still Be Super Heroes :)
In the 25 years that I’ve been working with and corresponding with TBI survivors, there has been a common thread that runs through the countless upturned lives due to our injuries: Many of us feel...
View ArticleHappy Summer!
Just checking in, saying hello. Hope everyone is enjoying a great start to summer without too too much heat or strife. I was thinking about a year ago and how much has changed. Here in Michigan we...
View ArticleJust Sayin’
We admire the regal eagle, soaring effortlessly overhead. Graceful. Majestic. Beautiful. We would not feel the same if that eagle tried to drive a car, swim under water or bake cupcakes. Let’s do what...
View ArticleThis One’s For You :)))
It’s been 25 years since my brain injury. Most of you know that, before I was two years into my recovery, I was already writing my first-ever book, “I’ll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After...
View ArticleTimes Before
There have been times, for each of us, when we felt demoralized, lonely, hopeless and failed. Way before these injuries, even. Times throughout our lives… But we suffered the losses and tried again....
View ArticleAfter The Blitz
I was watching a film the other night and two characters were driving through a bombed-out Britain after the Blitz in WW2. They were marveling at the destruction. Astonished. One character commented...
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