Brain injury throws the question of “Who am I?” into chaos. According to Madeleine L’Engle in her memoir A Circle of Quiet, the self is becoming. Not static but ever changing. Brain injury both reverses and accelerates this process and asks of us a question of being.
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My 24th Car Crash-Brain Injury Anniversary
I cannot comprehend that I have lived longer as an adult with brain injury than I did without one. My new life with catastrophic brain injury began on this day almost a quarter century ago.
Left Neglected: A Book Review
Left Neglected is a novel about an intelligent, driven, Type A woman, Sarah Nickerson, who crashes her car and injures her brain due to driver distraction. My review from a brain injury perspective.
Reading Chapter x Chapter x Chapter
Lindamood-Bell’s visualizing and verbalizing program to restore reading comprehension starts with an image, a sentence, and builds up to a chapter and then finally chapter by chapter, just like normal reading. You visualize as you read; at the end, you verbalize. It’s a lot more difficult to visualize several chapters in a row then verbalize…
Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts — A Review
I believe I first heard about Prolifiko, Bec Evans and Chris Smith’s company, on Twitter. I’ve been through a couple of incarnations of their methods to help writers write. When I first heard a few years ago about their free 7-day Writing Sprints, which ran the first week of the month, I signed up and…
Between Two Worlds — A Five-Minute Book Review
I’m reading this genre of books as background research for my trilogy. Fiction only works when it’s rooted in facts; whether or not people believe in existence after death, a writer has to use what people agree on occurs in the spirit world. Those are the facts I need to use in the case of…
Too Many Cooks — A 5-Minute Review
5-Minute 7 May 2022 Review after gamma AVE and biofeedback, photobiomodulation, and visualizing and verbalizing Lindamood-Bell Reading Rehab. I haven’t written a 5-minute review for the last few books. Oops! But I wanted to make sure I did for this one, for I’d reviewed it in 2012 before I underwent a raft of therapies that…
Two 5-Minute Book Reviews!
A Trick of the Light and Death at La Fenice This is a mystery, and a clever one at that, with distractions and clues hidden in details. But what I found outstanding about this book was that it’s perfect for bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses novels as a way to work…
Shadows in Bronze — A Five-Minute Review
When I read Lindsey Davis’s transcribed speech on Pompeii at the end of the ebook, and how she views her Falco novels, I had an ah-ha moment. I was struggling with the idea of a mystery novel revealing the mystery not even three-quarters of the way through the story. What kind of mystery tells whodunnit…