When I was studying psychology, back in the last century, in the less-enlightened-than-now era, we talked about not labelling patients and not calling patients patients but clients. The idea was that because of assumptions over the ages, we didn’t want to further marginalize people through diagnostic labels, didn’t want to give people a reason to [...]

I got a call. Would you like to join an expert panel on creating a training manual for anger management of people with brain injury? Uhhhh…. Good question. Did I want to take this road, of becoming involved in the brain injury community?
So far, I’ve joined a social group as one of those hang-around members [...]

Well, it’s over. Waahhhhhhh! The last two days zipped by; one moment I was facing two chapters left to write, feeling nervous, excited, and already nostalgic for this unbelievable month of novel writing called NaNoWriMo, the next I’d typed the last word, pressed the Save button, and it was all over.
I wrote 1,420 words this [...]

Only two more days, two more sleeps, two more chapters until the end of National Novel Writing Month. I’ve had so much fun, writing alone yet in a group of hundreds of thousands, that I’ll be sad to see it end. I’ve achieved far more than I expected; heck as of today, I achieved the [...]

Last year, I didn’t think I could do National Novel Writing Month — write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November — too onerous. This year, I wanted to try but not sure, again, if I could. Then I read a Writer’s Digest article about it, checked it out, and in a [...]

I’ve completed four days of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and I do believe it was a good decision, joining NaNoWriMo. The days and the writing have been scary, like pulling hens teeth, slow, and exhausting. But no matter how much I think I’m not going to do it or how much I want to [...]

When I first heard about National Novel Writing Month, I thought that I could never do. When I read about it last month, I thought, hmmmm… When I came across other people talking about it online, I thought this is just what I need to get my novel written. I don’t have someone to organize [...]

Less than 24 hours now, and National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, begins. By this time tomorrow, I won’t have started writing. First, I got to prepare, breathe deeply, have lunch, and pray pray pray. Then I begin.
I’m both excited and a little bit terrified as NaNo-Day approaches. I’ve filled out my NaNoWriMo profile, finished [...]

It’s only October, but already people are looking for Christmas gifts, big and small. So to that end I’ve created two calendars on CafePress for 2010. One showcases Toronto architecture with some stunning natural vistas to boot; the other is all about flowers and leaves that have been manipulated in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo [...]