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…
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.
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!…
I Read a Whole Chapter With Comprehension After Concussion
Surreal. I read an entire chapter, start to finish, using Lindamood-Bell visualizing and verbalizing method. First time since my brain injury. OMG! I got to the point of being able to read an entire chapter of The Screwtape Letters about 2 months ago but not in one go. Instead, I read for 5 minutes at…
First Amazon Review For Concussion Book and It’s Five Stars!
I browsed over to my Amazon page for Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me (Revised Edition) to link it for a tweet or something and was about to close it after copying the link when my brain finally registered what my eyes were seeing: stars! Stars?! Holy —-, stars! Five of them!!…
Camp NaNoWriMo?
Ever since my CCAC therapist left, the one provided by community care under medicare, at about the same time my parents left the city, I haven’t succeeded at Camp NaNoWriMo. It was difficult as it was. I worked hard to ramp up to doing both Camps in April and July, in addition to NaNoWriMo in…
At The BIST Expressive Art Show
The Brain Injury Society of Toronto holds an annual Expressive Art Show every Spring. This year it’s at Artscape Youngplace at 180 Shaw St. And I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be there with my book Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me! “the intricate details of the author’s experience are riveting and…
Last Reading Session with Lindamood-Bell
It’s over! Hard to believe that it was only four months ago, I was starting to learn how to visualize and verbalize and on my way to regaining my reading comprehension. And now it’s over. I plunged in with Lindamood-Bell on the basis of their decades of experience, their thorough reading assessment, my brain Clinic…