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Every Wednesday the live cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow makes Hump Day feel like a Saturday night. We gather and spend time with each other, just like friends. Early in the day on Wednesday, July 15th I looked to create extra hype for the evening. We began the night though, catching up on the past…
This post includes Amazon affiliate links to my cerebral palsy memoir Off Balanced. As an Amazon affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. Spend enough time in the cerebral palsy (CP) community and you will come to learn and maybe even actually hear the phrase. “If you know one person with cerebral palsy, then you know…
Seven days removed from our great caregiving focus chat and the live weekly cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow looked to continue with the upward momentum. Earlier in the day my co-host cohort Blake Henry and I enjoyed a great conversation about our prospective upcoming focus chats. Blake quickly foreshadowed the excitement to come. Perhaps though,…
*Blogger’s Note- I originally published this piece on my old blog under the title “Inspiration- A Third Person Concept?” Most times when I’m in a conversation about inspiration this post comes to my mind. So I decided to re-publish the post here. Enjoy! Over the past six plus years I delved deeper into a word…
Excitement burst throughout the #CPChatNow community Wednesday, July 1st like fireworks lighting up the night sky. The spark ignited by Handicap This co-star and #CPChatNow co-founder Tim Wambach returning to lead a focus chat on caregiving. Minutes before the live Twitter chat started though, bad news arrived. Rise above my co-host Blake Henry, our special…
The following post contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. Second Book Announcement: Throughout the last six months I made mention on multiple occasions I’m working on a second book. Yet I only shared two facts about the project. First, the book will stay in the non-fiction realm. Secondly…
Heading into this week’s live weekly cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow, my co-host Blake Henry and I promoted the announcement for our July focus chat. Before getting into the announcement, we enjoyed some laughs. Plus Blake did some last minute hyping for our announcement. However before we could tweet out the details, an old friend…
With life come certain discrete patterns. Think about the last event you eagerly anticipated, perhaps a vacation or simply a get together with old friends. How do you feel when that event passes? If like me, you may experience an emotional letdown. Man, you just went from great anticipation to over. Or, did you? A…
Wednesday, June 17th #CPChatNow held their monthly focus chat, this month’s topic “How can exercising help you in your daily life?” Our own Erin M. Diericx led the discussion. She began by giving her credentials. Please note while rich in personal experience Erin possesses no formal training in the medical field. Fittingly Erin structured the…
If you read my blog regularly, the name James Schleicher will sound familiar. James and I met through our college newspaper and quickly became friends. Post-college our friendship grew stronger thanks to similarities in our professional pursuits. Recently while on the phone with each other we discovered even more common ground. In the past we…