Monthly Archives: August 2009
Reach Out & Touch Someone
I am fascinated by how the internet is changing our communication and our relationships to one another! I have heard people make disparaging remarks that soon we will all just sit in rooms with computers in front of us and never truly connect with anyone; that we will become machine-like ourselves. I couldn't disagree more!! … Continue reading
Dancing Upside Down
The name of this website/blog, as you know, is Dancing Upside Down. The title actually did not come about because of the brain injury. I appropriated it to this blog because it seems to fit my trajectory of recovery as well as the name's original intent. The name came about shortly after I had watched … Continue reading
You gotta knife too?
To put it mildly . . . others do not experience the admission of a brain injury as just an engineering problem. I am not sure what to do about that. This photo is not that far off the mark at times. The other day when walking onto the ferry with homebound commuters a friend … Continue reading
It’s just an Engineering Problem
I never know quite what to say to people when they ask me how I am doing; especially if they do not know that I have a brain injury. The reality is that I am doing great! Largely because I finally have the correct diagnosis and am getting the help I need. I am sure … Continue reading
Bic Pens & the Magic of Opportunity
In the Footnote of the post below I commented about how Jeff Gregory continues to amaze me with his sketches done using a ball point pen. A few hours later and I came across Juan Francisco Casas! He uses only ballpoint pens to create his photorealistic portraits! Note that in the photo above he is … Continue reading
Headaches!
I am on day 5 or 6 of a head ache that will just not go away! So this morning when I was skating around on the web (because I was feeling too lousy to really concentrate on anything) I came across a new sketch by Jeff Gregory at Jagged Smile. It seemed to fit! … Continue reading
10,000 Hours
What does 10,000 hours get you? It is an enormous amount of time. It divides down to a little over 19 hours per week if you divide it evenly over 10 years. 10,000 hours is the "magic number" of practice time to achieve mastery; mastery of anything. "The emerging picture from such studies is that … Continue reading
