I am continuing to find ways to adapt to the deficits caused by my stroke. The biggest ongoing challenge is excessive sensory input overload. Basically, what that means is my brain gets easily overstimulated, causing it to melt down. In my new normal, in order to not create too much chaos in my brain, I …
Earlier this week I wrote about a “painful” lesson learned in my childhood while visiting my grandparents in Iowa. You can read that post here. Today I share another memory from those visits, this one “sweet.” One of my favorite things to do when visiting my maternal grandparents was help my grandma make apple cider. …
I have found that some of the best lessons are learned in the “field” and not in the “laboratory.” Schooling and book knowledge are important to success in life, but it is what we learn by trial and error, by experiment, by doing dumb stuff, by failing, that are some of the best lessons learned. …
Life is sometimes like a roller coaster. One minute you are slowly chugging up the hill and then the next minute you are plummeting down the other side at breakneck speed with the g-forces pushing you into your seat. Then, suddenly, the ride hits a bump in the track, and you are lifted out of …
We live in a world that is orderly and predictable. Everything goes as planned. There are no surprises. Think of words like balance, unanimity, systematized, normality. All words to describe the planet on which we live and the cosmos that surrounds it. Wait? What? Right now, you are asking – what world do you live …
During the course of any given day, we are inundated with sounds and noises. Our hearing system connects us to the soundscape of our environment and provides us with the tools to identify and interpret acoustic cues. Our brain then catalogs those sound patterns, allowing us recognize and process sounds in the future, both familiar …