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Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 25th

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 resource is the Brain Injury Network (BIN) website. The Brain Injury Network (BIN), an advocacy organization operated for and by survivors founded in 1998, is an international and USA national association … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 24th

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 In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing by Lee and Bob Woodruff In January 2006, Lee and Bob Woodruff seemed to have it all: a happy … Read more

Turkish Felted Mantles

The first time I saw a photo of a Turkish shepherd wearing a floor-length kepenek over his shoulders, I thought of a toddler wearing a snowsuit, standing stiffly, barely able to move—it looked so bulky and cumbersome. I couldn’t begin to imagine a shepherd working while wearing such a garment. Surely there was more to … Read more

Lola

I think it might have been her glorious smile that first caught my eye. Perhaps it was the warm color of her skin that attracted my attention. Wait! Was this racism on my part? That my first impression of her was through the color of her skin? I didn’t want that to be the case. … Read more