Hi gang. I’m taking a bit of a break from my break. I hope while I’ve been gone, you’ve been reading our two new bloggers Andy Dovey and Chef Myron. BEST also has a new guest blogger sharing her work this Friday named Kirsten Short (stay tuned). If you haven’t, please stop by and show (more…)
One of the questions I’m asked sometimes when I meet someone new is, “What kind of therapy are you in?” or a statement about how whichever therapy I’m undergoing seems to be working really well. The truth is that I’m not in any kind of ongoing therapy. Or more accurately, I’m not officially in any (more…)
We’ve got some months of 2018 behind us now. How’s it been going for you so far? Did you make New Year’s resolutions for yourself? Did they work out for you? Are you still working on the improvements you set for yourself? I assume you resolved to make yourself better in some way, since it (more…)
I don’t have to tell traumatic brain injury survivors how difficult it is to live with a traumatic brain injury since that would be preaching to the choir. But in this space, I get to step up and be the lead singer sometimes. You know what it’s like: some days you can feel like you (more…)
A good long while ago, I met the most beautiful little girl in the world and became her dad. You heard about her before in my last essay. Her name is Nicole and she is the daughter of a good friend. In short order, Nicole and I bonded to the point where she was asking (more…)
A little while ago, I asked this: “What if there is a kind of power that everyone has, and it’s power that not is not destructive or coercive, and once it’s applied, only gets stronger and will multiply itself?” Here’s part of the answer: unconditional love. What I mean by unconditional is actually self-explanatory. To (more…)