#EmpowerYourBrain

My Daughter, Nicole

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I didn’t want to write this, but I’ve got to get this out.  This will be the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. This is about my adoptive daughter, Nicole. I’ve written about her before and the special father-daughter relationship and the joy and happiness we shared the past 30 years. Nicole experienced an epidural hematoma just a few months ago. To put it simply, an epidural hematoma is bleeding between the inside of the skull and the outer covering of tissue surrounding the brain. It can mimic the effects of a stroke, and many of them happen after

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We Don’t Have the Answer (Yet!), But You Just Might

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Words: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead A domed tree with three butterflies flying around it.

We’ll cut to the chase: funding for educational and support programs and services for disabled adults has not been easy to come by, despite great effort. Our nonprofit has been financially impacted since the onset of the pandemic, but we made it work by being agile and quickly adapting to COVID-19, while serving our beloved community in any and every way we could. We found answers and put them to work; but finding solutions to tough problems is in our DNA. Since 2008, we’ve found answers to three questions: How can we thrive individually and as a community after brain

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Jury Duty (Again)

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This morning the old joke, when you go into court you are putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty kept going through my injured brain. I had to report for jury duty recently, and I was sitting there waiting to find out whether I’d be selected to sit on a jury. This is the second consecutive year I got a jury duty summons—except they try to dress it up by calling it jury service. Duty or service, whatever they want to call it, it’s a bit of an ordeal

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