This was the last week with my behavioural therapist from CCAC (Community Care Access Centre). I still find it a bit surreal. It’s like my brain is going, nope, not happening, don’t want to feel this upsetting change. At the same time I applaud her going for a promotion and pursuing more education in that…
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.
May’s #ABIchat: Ambition
Heard on Q: first-born girls are the most ambitious and most likely to succeed. Bwahahahaha! Ahem. #braininjury — ShireenJ (@ShireenJ) May 5, 2014 Brain injury takes so much from us or from clients and loved ones. On May 5th, I was listening to the radio show Q on CBC Radio 1 when Jian Ghomeshi, the…
Brain Injury Friendly Way to Socialize: My Article in March 2014 OBIA Review
Because of my Twitter activities and launching #ABIchat last year, the Communications and Program Assistant at OBIA, the Ontario Brain Injury Association, contacted me about writing an article on social media for their magazine OBIA Review. It’s rather nice to be invited out of the blue to write something, and so I did. Back in…
Smashwords Winter/Summer Sale = Free Ebooks
“At one minute past midnight Pacific time on March 2, the special Smashwords Read an Ebook Week promotion catalogue goes live on the Smashwords home page. Readers can browse the catalogue and search by coupon code levels and categories. At the stroke of midnight Pacific time at the end of the day on March 8,…
NaNoWriMo 2013
I didn’t think I would do it this year. The novel I had in mind, I couldn’t get researched in time. I had trouble even with desiring to write anything, and I worried that by the time November 1st came around, I’d have some motivation back but nothing to write. And so I, unusually for…
Orangeberry Tour of TIME AND SPACE Wraps Up
“It’s hard to fight for home when you’re dumped into an alien future with a pack of three boys gunning for your death.“ Today, August 31st, is the last day of the 2013 Orangeberry Book Expo, in which I participated with my time travel novel. Time and Space is in row 7 of their Booths.…
Another Month, Another Giveaway for Time and Space!
Giveaway time! Enter to win a copy of Time and Space through Goodreads, the website for readers. Goodreads Book Giveaway Time and Space by Shireen Jeejeebhoy Giveaway ends August 15, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Announcing the Launch of #ABIchat on Twitter
One of the great things about Twitter is the way it fosters conversations, the way people support each other. One of the things the brain injury community is lacking is a place to chat regularly on Twitter. And so I am launching a regular Twitter chat I’ve given the moniker “#ABIchat.” After seeing other medical…