The longer this pandemic grinds on, the more similarities I see with how my brain injury recovery went. It’s so sad that physicians and rehabilitation haven’t innovated in the last two decades to change those stages. I wrote my latest post for Psychology Today on this topic, on how a concussion, or COVID-19, devastates us…
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.
NaNoWriMo 2021 Is Here! Trilogy Time!!
November means NaNoWriMo time! I’ve had an idea brewing in my head for a few years now. At first, it came in the form of a play. In 2019, I wrote my Resurrection play. But the idea expanded into a question. The Question For NaNoWriMo 2021 What would it be like to live in the…
Six-Week Post-New Concussion Update
Brain injury is so strange to us because, despite our vast knowledge of the brain, we barely understand it. I can write small, sort/of-poetic observational tweets, or copy-and-paste a few sentences from one of my Psychology Today articles or brain injury pages into Hootsuite to post, but now six weeks after my new concussion, I…
Brain Injury Website Soft Launch!
Good news! My brain injury website soft launch is here!! My pandemic project, an idea brewing in my head for almost a decade, bits and pieces written over a long time, all coming together. When I wrote Concussion Is Brain Injury, I saved the related-name domains, intending to expand the book into a website. A…
Harnessing The Sun’s Red Rays For Your Health
Medical Assistance in Dying, Bill C-7: A Letter To My MP on Euthanizing Disabled
Medical assistance in dying is suicide by another’s hand, one that was trained to heal and restore life. It’s now being targetted at people on the basis of disability. This issue is so serious the UN has weighed in on it. I wrote the following email to my MP this week (I’ve omitted my intro…
Muscles, Arthritis, and Light Therapy
Car crash. Whiplash. Shoulder strains and sprains. I talk about concussion but rarely the injuries outside the brain. Or the inherited arthritis invading my fingers, the essentials of my craft. But I’m writing now because I finally had to bite the bullet to replace my aging home low-intensity laser therapy unit (LILT), and it made…
Advocacy Committee Dashes and Hopes
Two years ago, I wrote a piece on social construction within the brain injury rehab context. The Executive Director of the Brain Injury Society of Toronto (BIST) on behalf of the Board approached me afterward in response. They were concerned that I didn’t feel safe enough to bring this issue up directly with them, and…
Branding Time
Author brand. Branding campaign. Get your brand, catch customers. My head swims with marketing gurus rapidly sharing their tips to all of us selling SFA. Buzzwords and trendy nothings. But one idea I thought would be kind of fun to do is to create a character to go with my logo. A character that could…