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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…
Putting the cliche “better late than never” to the test, here comes your recap for this past Wednesday’s #CPChatNow. Remember the live cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow happens every Wednesday at 8pm ET. The evening started slow, something expected given tweets from earlier in the day. My co-host Blake did make the chat at a…
Blogger’s Note- This week I go back to my writing archives and re-publish my review for Shane Michael Taylor’s audio book Living This Rodeo: A Journey From Fantasy to Reality*. The review originally appeared on the now defunct Yahoo! Voices. While I first listened to Living This Rodeo four years ago, I still carry with…
Early on in the day Wednesday Blake, my co-host for the live cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow, tweeted out he would miss the evening chat. Co-host or not the party must go on. Personally something I found neat about last night’s chat involved members in our community demonstrating principles I’m used to hearing from motivational…
Almost halfway through 2015 I must ask you my dear reader, where do you stand with the New Year resolutions you set back in January? Stay honest with me. More importantly, stay honest with you. No worries if you cannot claim success right now. You still possess time. Go look at how many days remain…
To borrow a line from the old TV show Cheers‘ theme song, “Sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your name.” My co-host Blake Henry and I along with our friends like to call that place the live weekly cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow. Every Wednesday at 8pm ET you can count on #CPChatNow…
So you talk to yourself, which creates some internal uncertainty. You may wonder, “Does that make me weird?” “Am I not normal?” If Google search results provide any indication, talking to yourself carries a negative cogitation. The first results for “I talk to myself” read “Talking to Myself- Is That Normal? Quick and Dirty Tips,”…
Wednesday after Wednesday people take to Twitter at 8pm ET for the live cerebral palsy Twitter chat #CPChatNow. This week proved no different. The community atmosphere shined brightly. For my co-host Blake Henry, May 20th marked an exciting day. Now he remains a college bound Reaching for the Stars Foundation Student Ambassador. Moving on, the…