Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. Right now. It rarely fails, I’m doing well, settling into a rhythm and then one! two! three! My body tells me I don’t belong in this place of writing regularly, not having setbacks in my exercise and activity routines. Even though the car crash…
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Spontaneous Brain Injury Healing Notes
Spontaneous healing of brain injury does continue after effective treatments end. A doctor observing these improvements helps patients keep working at their home therapy.
The Day the Rice Blew Up
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. My most epic cooking fail happened decades ago. I’d volunteered to cook for the dinner party my parents were hosting for 20 people. I was 14 years old and already used to cooking for 6 or 8 or more people. Twenty was a new goal! I…
Blood Pressure Revisited
To figure out out what to do about my yo-yoing blood pressure, we have to look at my coping skills (fine), the actual stress I’m under (situational, emotional, physical, mental), my physical parameters (weight, diet, exercise), and how my brain has affected the whole shebang.
Back To Feedblitz
Feedblitz has an impossible design template, a confusing layout, but it doesn’t fatally crash my website. Who knew that MailPoet, a plugin by the makers of this website’s software backend, would regularly throw up bugs and, in a final act of petulance, create a fatal error requiring hours to fix: time with support, restoring an…
Ebooks Up for Pre-Order — At Last!
Ebook pre-order announcement time! As some of you may know, I’d wanted to create an accessible ebook for Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: How to Heal When You Are Alone back when I released the paperback in 2022. But I failed. I never could figure out how to create an accessible ebook. Meanwhile, Smashwords had…
Cover Reveals Title
Today is the day! I’m ready to reveal the title and cover of the first book in my trilogy!! But first, drum roll, please, with a final cymbal ring, as I reveal the trilogy’s title. The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy As I pondered, tested, googled various trilogy titles using the word “resurrection” or some English synonym, I…
Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony
I barely thought about the Olympics leading up to today. My ears registered the news announcing the countdown; my mind let the info slip in and out. Since I wanted to continue trying out my new ASUS laptop, I decided to stream the Opening Ceremony in the background. Yesterday, I’d connected my monitor to my…
Updating My Writing Steps
Updating my writing steps: Getting back into fiction writing means reminding myself how I got from idea to finish manuscript.