For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest, I immediately thought of how even today, the neurostimulation and neuromodulation treatments that heal much of my brain injury, are still considered risky, unproven. They’ve only been around 40+ years, proven for 20 to heal brain damage. But, I guess, we love to watch science…
Category: Personal
Tense: Poem A Day
TensePast tells a storyPresent lives a storyFuture pretends a story we want to live but never will. #PoemADay #BrainInjury #PTSD #grief Tense was the prompt for today’s poem for Writer’s Digest April poetry challenge. For today’s prompt, write a tense poem. It could be past tense, present tense, and/or future tense. Or it could be…
Third Readers’ Favorite Review of The Soul’s Awakening
“lyrical prose blends with succinct and captivating dialogues to create a narrative that intelligently examines the concept of the self and the choices that shape one’s destiny.” 5⭐ Ruffina Oserio for Readers’ Favorite #BookSky #SFF #Fiction #IndieAuthor
from where I’m sitting: A Poem
For Writer’s Digest Poem A Day, day two, I wrote in Bluesky in a couple of minutes: from where I’m sittingA glassScratched and etched from useA strawMetal, bent, and stainedA drinkCold, dark, liquid fuelA brewTo wake me up and greetThe storm. #PoemADay #Poem
The Worst of Times: A Poem
Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest has run a poem a day event during the month of April. I participated in it — and posted my poems here — eons ago. One poem so captivated my Pastor, he asked Old Testament scholars to comment on the thoughts behind it. Being scholars and me being not,…
Shake-It-Up Saturday
Shake-it-up Saturday is the sixth day of the Written Academy’s 7-Day Writing Sprint. You’re supposed to do something different or shake up your writing environment or whatever. Anything to shake up your writing routine. I’m playing with Lottie Animations.
Changing CES to taVNS
I wrote on Psychology Today about taVNS and its dramatic potential to heal brain injury. Then I decided to follow Dave Siever’s guidance on how to position the CES clips to provide taVNS. Wow! I did not expect such a powerfully motivating and productive result!!
Canada Yells Buy Canadian, eh?
Buy local, has been a carrying cry for quite some time. But “buy Canadian!” has shot up from nowhere to dominate the airwaves and social media, well, Bluesky anyway, as that’s the only one I’m on these days. I pop in to LinkedIn every once in awhile and, at times, Flickr. I wonder about the…
Quarter of a Century with Brain Injury
Reflecting on the past 25 years living with traumatic brain injury as I walk into the continuing fog of the future.