At 9:28AM, I downloaded the Bluesky app, entered the invite code my Tweep Karen Walton (Canadian screenwriter) had just sent me via Twitter DM, and joined Bluesky! I’d entered my email last Fall on their waiting list, then realizing I wasn’t going to get an invite code anytime soon, last week I launched a Substack…
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I Launched Mind Explorer, A Substack Newsletter
Substack is where all the cool writers hang these days. But I’d resisted joining until Twitter started imploding, and I decided to find a way to get a Blue Sky invite quicker. I also thought maybe I could use Substack to make this website’s newsletter easier to manage. Nope. But it did give me a…
Knowledge Is Scary
A great teacher takes the arduous learning process, the scary knowledge they’re sharing with you, and makes it rewarding. Even actionable. What makes a teacher great? Way back when, students could run all sorts of experiments in their high school labs and witness firsthand explosive chemical reactions. My father told me about one of his…
Delicious Childhood Memory
I rarely eat anything from my childhood. But… Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? As I pondered today’s Jetpack prompt question, one memory returned. My first bite of chocolate. My faithful readers will not be surprised. Heh. After all, chocolate whispers sweet, intense desires to open my wallet and spend…
A Notable Bran Muffin
What notable things happened today? I had a hankering for a bran muffin, blueberry bran. I’d tried baking from a popular recipe last month, but wasn’t really happy with it. For one thing, I had to use raspberries as I had no blueberries. This time, I had the frozen blueberries but didn’t realize until I…
My Tagline?
If humans had taglines, what would yours be? Getting to know me, would be my tagline, I think. For myself to get to know myself, and others who knew me before brain injury and those only after to know the real me. Brain injury changed me drastically. For the non-ostriches, the changes rocked them. As…
Remembering, Believing Compassion In Tough Times
What quality do you value most in a friend? The title is the quality I value most. Until my brain injury, I believed I had friends who’d be there in sickness not just health. Until the Y2K car crash, I didn’t think about how important it is to remember the person that was before sickness…
Life Before the Internet
Do you remember life before the internet? I do remember life before the internet, but I was an early adopter, so that was a loooong time ago. I used my father’s University of Toronto email account to email an American friend until torfree.net came on the scene. Then someone, I forget who, got in touch…
Broken A Bone, Broken A Brain
Have you ever broken a bone? Perhaps my broken bone foresighted my broken brain. Not the break itself but the response to it. A child. Springtime. Judo after school. Went up the belts rapidly. Orange belt. After school play with friends. Energetic. In dresses and tights. No thought of breaking anything in myself. But then,…