Have you ever seen a circus elephant standing serenely, tied to a little peg in the ground? How does that work? I mean, elephants can grow to be over a ton. Why does an elephant just stand there? Why doesn’t this creature, one of the most powerful animals in the world, just rip the peg (more…)
It’s been quite a while since I wrote an essay about writing. Some people had let me know they were interested in writing, but had no idea how to get started writing, so every once in a while I devote a column to that topic. This time I thought I’d get back to how I (more…)
I got some advice in my younger years that has worked very well for me since and no doubt will continue to be valuable for many years to come. That advice was from a (then) well-known actor. In an interview he was asked about stage fright and what he did to get over it. His (more…)
It wasn’t until I had been discharged from a month-long hospital stay in 2016 after experiencing a major stroke that I had even heard of the Brain Energy Support Team (BEST). For some reason I don’t really know or understand, I decided to get into a support group. The social worker at the hospital gave (more…)
I have an anniversary coming up, one I’m more than happy to celebrate. November 8th marks five years since I lived through a major stroke. I’ve written here before that that’s a day I should never be able to forget, but instead it’s a day I’ll never remember. But I’m not worried about that—the fact (more…)
I keep getting comments and questions about how I survived a huge stroke, and continue to not just recover, but to thrive since then. The other day it came up again, and my friend quipped that if surviving a stroke was an Olympic event, I’d take the gold. That quip stayed in the back of (more…)
