Reach Out for Your Dreams by Susan Schutz My rating: 5 of 5 stars I came across this slim volume (again) while I was reorganizing my books and sat down to look through it, as is the wont of any good reader. Underneath the title “Reach Out for Your Dreams” my English grandmother had written,…
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Review: The Grand Design
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking My rating: 3 of 5 stars In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking along with his co-writer Leonard Mlodinow go beyond A Briefer History of Time, which I reviewed recently, and enter the territory of philosophers. They claim that philosophy is the domain of physicists because philosophers have abdicated their…
Chalk Words for Jack Layton: Too Soon
Staycation Time!
It’s summer. It’s warm. It’s not raining…yet. And I’m zonked. Time to voluntarily take a staycation before my body demands it, which, uh, it already is. As of now, I’m on my 2 to 3-week staycation (my therapist chuckled at the idea of me resting for a whole 3 weeks) and plan on being offline…
Order Page Updated
I have updated my Order Page with the latest information on where to buy around the world my five books in ebook formats, paperback, and hardcover (Lifeliner only for the latter). CreateSpace has not finished rolling out the paperback version of She to all the online retailers and bookstores, and Smashwords is still distributing She…
Eleven Shorts +1 is Out!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just published a new ebook! But to backtrack a bit… I wrote short stories and poetry all the way back to elementary school and up until my brain injury. In the 1980s and 90s, I got serious about writing shorts. Poetry not so much. After my brain injury, that…
Jack Layton: The Spirit of His Legacy
Words fail me. That’s what I tweeted this morning, after I saw the Breaking News on Citytv’s Breakfast Television, as I was massaging my muscles post-weight session, that Jack Layton had died. That first announcement was brief, and Cynthia Mulligan had a hard time switching gears to traffic. Switching gears. That’s what’s happening today. Being…
Brainline.org on Five Members of a Club No One Wants to Belong to
“Groucho Marx got a lot of laughs for saying that he’d never want to be a member of a club that would accept him as a member.” (Katherine Wise) So begins the brainline.org article Brain injury Blogs: Voices from People Living with Traumatic Brain Injury about five bloggers, including me (!), whom they declare as…
Review: Trent’s Last Case
Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I think it was an Amazon Kindle group thread on good public domain books to read that I heard of this one. I downloaded it to my iPod Touch and read it using the Stanza app. Apparently Bentley was a newspaperman, who wrote…