I’m reading this genre of books as background research for my trilogy. Fiction only works when it’s rooted in facts; whether or not people believe in existence after death, a writer has to use what people agree on occurs in the spirit world. Those are the facts I need to use in the case of…
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Too Many Cooks — A 5-Minute Review
5-Minute 7 May 2022 Review after gamma AVE and biofeedback, photobiomodulation, and visualizing and verbalizing Lindamood-Bell Reading Rehab. I haven’t written a 5-minute review for the last few books. Oops! But I wanted to make sure I did for this one, for I’d reviewed it in 2012 before I underwent a raft of therapies that…
Time for Another Book
April means Camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This year, I’m trying it again because a self-help book for people with brain injury sprouted in my brain and demanded being written. I obeyed. I set my Camp goal as 25,000 words. I don’t usually manage to last the month, and I thought halving the November…
Self-Help Book Launching Into Camp
Self-help book. I didn’t think I’d ever write one. I don’t feel qualified for one. Yeah, I’ve created a website to share knowledge about how to recognize, diagnose, and treat brain injury. It’s relatively easy (though super tiring, draining, exhausting) to research and put together facts, especially since I’ve essentially been doing that since 2005.…
Two 5-Minute Book Reviews!
A Trick of the Light and Death at La Fenice This is a mystery, and a clever one at that, with distractions and clues hidden in details. But what I found outstanding about this book was that it’s perfect for bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses novels as a way to work…
Letter to Anglican Diocesan Bishop About Rev. Coren on Twitter
Dear The Right Reverend Susan Bell, I’m writing to you today about Rev. Michael Coren’s recent tweets about the reporter Travis Dhanraj and his response to me when I challenged him on it. I wouldn’t pursue it except that he represents Christianity and our church to the world and did, in effect, recognize his mistake…
Where Is My Nose Running To?
Rhinitis running to drive me crazy! “vasomotor rhinitis seems to be an exaggeration of the normal nasal response to irritation, occurring at levels of exposure, which doesn’t bother most people.” Vasomotor Rhinitis, Asthma + Respiratory Foundation New Zealand Way, way back my GP told me my non-stop congested nose was traumatic rhinitis. The trauma of…
Breaking the Lore – A Five-Minute Book Review
The problem with genres is that they sometimes don’t work. A murder mystery isn’t a mystery when the murder is simply the inciting incident but doesn’t need much sleuthing to be solved when characters tell the Inspector fairly early on in the novel whodunnit and why. I was kind of expecting a twist to the…
Roller Coaster Fatigue Management
It dawned on me today that managing my fatigue is like politicians managing the pandemic. They’ve created a roller coaster of lockdown, reopen, restrict, reopen; my fatigue has boxed me into a roller coaster of day-long couch time, add some cognitive activity, rest, add walking, restrict, add walking to cognitive, take a week off. You…