March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is I Had Brain Surgery, What Your Excuse? by Suzy Parker. For years Suzy Becker, author of the “New York Times” bestseller “All I Need to Know I Learned from … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is I’ll Be OK, It’s Just a Hole in My Head: A Memoir on Heartbreak and Head Trauma by Mimi Hayes. This book is a humorous and thoughtful cross between … Read more
As my first full draft of my book “Threads Around the World: From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe” neared completion, I started thinking of a second volume. I told myself that if the book was well received I’d write a second book.
The stories behind traditional textiles expose our commonalities—we have too much in common with each other to be divided into us and them, to be regarded as more or less. Stories allow us to acknowledge the person in each other.