This COVID-19 pandemic inducing early shopping panic, so many self-isolating needing groceries delivered, and no government or charity arranging grocery pickup and delivery for people with disabilities like me, meant it took me a week to work out where to order from that didn’t charge an arm and a leg and that actually allowed me…
Category: News
Anything new in my life and work or occasionally in the news that’s related to me, my books, or the people I wrote about in “Lifeliner” a biography.
First Mind Alive Gamma Session
With COVID-19 cancelling my brain biofeedback appointments at the ADD Centre plus having to miss the session just before lockdown because of exhaustion from participating in Brain Storm, I began to feel the absence of no gamma brainwave training. Fortunately, Mind Alive has added three gamma sessions to their DAVID Delight Pro and DAVID Delight…
Brain Storm, A Play in One Act, An Opportunity in One Year
The opportunity began in 2017 with an ordinary BIST outing to see Brain Storm by Taliesin McEnaney at the Toronto Fringe Festival. I wrote a review. I released my revised book Concussion Is Brain Injury to the world shortly after. Based on my review and my book, Taliesin, a member of the Brain Injury Society…
Brain Storm — A Play Worth Seeing!
“A visually arresting and comically haunting look at the ramifications of brain surgery and how one woman finds her way in a reality that is forever different. BRAIN STORM takes you into the operating theatre, to dissect the question; are our brains magic, machines or both?” UPDATE: I will be on the talk-back panel after…
Remembering Pastor Duke Vipperman
My Pastor, The Rev. Canon Dr. Walter Bryce (Duke) Vipperman, died on Friday, 3 January 2020 from cancer at the age of 69. This is my eulogy of an ordinary, radical man. The sun shone on the church steps as Duke shook hands with congregants emerging through the ornery wood church doors. I hung back…
Why Do Canadians of Colour Dismiss Trudeau’s Blackface?
Research and awareness may explain why Canadians cannot see overt racism. When I first read about Time magazine revealing on September 18, 2019 an old photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface, I thought: someone is muckraking, and what is brownface, anyway? Then I saw the photo. Then I saw the photo and video…
Five 5-Star Reviews of Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me!
Amazon 5-star reviews are like gold. Amazon has very strict guidelines on who can review your book like my memoir Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me. It’s rather confusing, but the fundamental principle of you can’t tell them what to write is one I abide by anyway because what’s the point of…
An Amazon Verified Purchaser Reviews Concussion Is Brain Injury: Five Stars
After a drought of online reviews, I’m blessed with a third five-star review! No words just a heart of thanks to the reviewers who saw my book in their email subscriptions, bought it, read it, and reviewed it. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B075XJK767/R22S0XV2PUIHUF
Second Five-Star Amazon Review of Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me!
I was over the moon when I received my first five-star book review for Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me. But my second . . . My brain is struggling to process . . . The title — what I was hoping to achieve . . . Can’t believe I did it!…