It’s summer. It’s warm. It’s not raining…yet. And I’m zonked. Time to voluntarily take a staycation before my body demands it, which, uh, it already is. As of now, I’m on my 2 to 3-week staycation (my therapist chuckled at the idea of me resting for a whole 3 weeks) and plan on being offline…
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Order Page Updated
I have updated my Order Page with the latest information on where to buy around the world my five books in ebook formats, paperback, and hardcover (Lifeliner only for the latter). CreateSpace has not finished rolling out the paperback version of She to all the online retailers and bookstores, and Smashwords is still distributing She…
Eleven Shorts +1 is Out!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just published a new ebook! But to backtrack a bit… I wrote short stories and poetry all the way back to elementary school and up until my brain injury. In the 1980s and 90s, I got serious about writing shorts. Poetry not so much. After my brain injury, that…
Jack Layton: The Spirit of His Legacy
Words fail me. That’s what I tweeted this morning, after I saw the Breaking News on Citytv’s Breakfast Television, as I was massaging my muscles post-weight session, that Jack Layton had died. That first announcement was brief, and Cynthia Mulligan had a hard time switching gears to traffic. Switching gears. That’s what’s happening today. Being…
Brainline.org on Five Members of a Club No One Wants to Belong to
“Groucho Marx got a lot of laughs for saying that he’d never want to be a member of a club that would accept him as a member.” (Katherine Wise) So begins the brainline.org article Brain injury Blogs: Voices from People Living with Traumatic Brain Injury about five bloggers, including me (!), whom they declare as…
Blood Pressure and Brain Injury: The Test
I had 24-hour blood pressure monitoring done twice this past week, sort of. The first monitor went kaput after a couple of hours. So the next day, back on the highway I went to the clinic and was hooked up to a 2-week-old one. Brand new is better than well used, except when it comes…
Journalists vs. Book Writers on Twitter
Journalists and writers are similar, right? After all, journalism is a specialised form of writing. Well, if you go by Twitter, I’d say they’re different, quite different. Though there are exceptions, generally speaking journalists on Twitter get it, book writers do not. Journalists get that it’s a great way to talk to their readers, to…
The Grief of Jack Layton’s Cancer Announcement
I am not going to speculate on Official Opposition and NDP Leader Jack Layton’s cancer and condition because the timing of his announcement reminds me too much of the timing of my own catastrophe that it overwhelms other thoughts. It is awful and frightening when you receive a troubling diagnosis; it is shocking enough when…
Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale of “Lifeliner” and “She” Now On!
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter for friends in the Southern Hemisphere. In honour of that, Smashwords is kicking off their third annual Summer/Winter Sale, and they invited authors to participate. I answered their invitation with a resounding “Yes!” Lifeliner and She will both be fifty percent off their regular price. And as…