Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. I fell under the spell of the PBS series earlier this year, and decided I should find out more about Mrs. G. The novel is no better than a minor work, but I was really disappointed that the novel had been so modified…
"Show me old video footage of me doing things to remind me about how I spoke, walked, and gestured." One of Jill Taylor's "forty things" I didn't experience this exactly the same way—I'm not really into home movies or…
Last week a friend sent me a link to a radio interview with Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke and made a full recovery. I have since bought her book, My Stroke of Insight. It has been amazing listening to her and reading her book. I…
Well, it turns out that walking without a cane was something like a teaser. Shortly after that accomplishment, I changed therapists, and we decided that the mechanics of my walking are are too chancy to make walking without a cane a serious goal. The risks of serious back pain outweigh…
on my way home from rehab. An amazing thing happened today. For the first time in more than a year, I walked without a cane.…
I copied this out some time ago and forgot to record who wrote it. Still a good thought for Thanksgiving. There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning. in the chapel of…
I did some reading, at least, while I was taking it easy. Finished The Book on Bush and treated myself to The Bridge of San Luis Rey. I liked this novel when I read it years ago, and I still think it's a fine piece of writing. I&…
home from the hospital and trying to stay there. Took it slow for about a week and then got thrown into things again with "freelance" assignments from my old office. Also accepted a speaking opportunity with my Toastmasters club and this is what came of it. Perfection I…