Back to novelling. The second novel in The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy. Will I last without NaNoWriMo’s external drivers?
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My Left Ulnar Nerve Is Being a Bitch
Tell us about a time when you felt out of place. Right now. It rarely fails, I’m doing well, settling into a rhythm and then one! two! three! My body tells me I don’t belong in this place of writing regularly, not having setbacks in my exercise and activity routines. Even though the car crash…
The Day the Rice Blew Up
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. My most epic cooking fail happened decades ago. I’d volunteered to cook for the dinner party my parents were hosting for 20 people. I was 14 years old and already used to cooking for 6 or 8 or more people. Twenty was a new goal! I…
Birthday Gift to Myself
Birthdays aren’t usually a topic on my blog, but this year, the sun is out, the sky is blue, my life has been upended for over a year, and I’m musing over this ⤵️ What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)? My reading. Yeah, I know “found (and kept)” denotes an object. But…
Screen Time Is Me Time
But is it? Isn’t screen time more like social time? How do you manage screen time for yourself? I don’t have timers or use apps that block surfing or social media. I have a routine instead. Way way back, I used to take one day off from all things digital and computer because my “addiction”…
Lazy or Resting?
“Lazy days” connotes slow summertime, feet propped up, a book in hand. But is it really resting? Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive? In the time before brain injury, lazy days felt like a reward for a week filled with study, reports, phone calls, meetings, and meeting expectations and deadlines. They usually…
My Name
The origins of my name are a mystery and well known. Where did your name come from? My first name is ancient Persian — Zoroastrian — meaning “sweet,” co-opted by Muslims as their own, maybe through the conquering of Ancient Persia over a millennium ago that reduced the Zoroastrian population to a minuscule fraction. My…
Desired Change?
Big desire. Impossible ambition. Through blogs, books, and websites. What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? Change the system of diagnosis and treatment of brain injury from symptom based to objective tests and effective, permanent non-drug, non-surgical treatments. Change standard medical education to recognize concussion, long COVID,…
The Incense Tradition
My parents and I arrived in Canada with little but our clothes, my newborn brother, and a few, small things from India like incense burners. Burning incense in Canada felt like a traditional tie to our burgeoning family life.