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The Power of One: Coming to terms with my inner T-Paw

Here I am on semester break, the week between the regular school year and my summer teaching.  (Due to my ineptitude at managing money, I always have to reach summers to get by). It’s, of course, a...

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Supplements are not Supplemental

Pema Chödrön (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I started the summer semester in a general funk.  (For my academic year, “summer” starts mid May.  My kids are finishing school this week, but I’m already a...

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Free book!

. . . next week. On Wednesday, June 20th, I’ll be “hosting” a virtual book tour stop for author Kevin Roberts who’s out with a new book: Movers, Dreamers, and Risk Takers: Unlocking the Power of ADHD....

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The Papers

When I was a teenager and young adult, I had a fear that there would be no kind of job I could tolerate.  Adulthood seemed like one long road of boredom ahead of me.  My experiences having jobs as a...

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Where can I exchange this gift?

Interesting perspective on the “gift” of ADHD.  Is calling ADHD a gift akin to saying Hemmingway had the “gift” of alcoholism?  

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august is crazy making

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Gate Jockey

The summer I graduated from high school, I worked in a plastics factory before I headed off to college. I spent the first part of the summer on an extended backpacking trip with a school group that was...

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Where the magic happens

One of my hobbies (distractions) is looking at pictures of writers’ desks.  One of my favorite books is The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz.  See also my last post. In that vein, I decided to post some...

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My Halloween Costume

This year I’m going as myself because I have an impostor complex.

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To the Teacher

Reblogged from Living and Learning Under Pressure: Dear Teachers, Here is what might help a student with ADD and ADHD from the student’s perspective.  I know that it might be difficult and hard to...

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Dispatch from The Molehill Mountainization Department

MEMORANDUM TO: Cerebellum in latudine FROM: Frontal Cortex RE: Committee for Project Timeline Expansion implementing GO Policy DATE: February 13, 2013 Given the recent decrease of inflow of...

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Monday of Fail

Creditor calling for bill I forgot to pay compounding my morning rush to get ready for an early meeting which turns out is actually scheduled for Tuesday. Thanks, prefrontal lobes . . . awesome day I’m...

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Book Giveaway: L. Todd Rose’s _Square Peg_

Enter here for a drawing for a free copy of Rose’s Square Peg. Read my review here. U.S. or Canadian only, no P.O. Boxes [contact-form]

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Review of _Square Peg_ by L. Todd Rose

Square Peg L. Todd Rose with Katherine Ellison Hyperion http://www.amazon.com/Square-Peg-Visionaries-Out-Box/dp/1401324274/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0 Book drawing here.   ADHDer’s have trouble fitting into an...

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Taking the A Train, Part I

Two months since my last post, whaaaat? Summer time is always busy, but geez. Being Cancer Dad will sap your time.  At the moment, I’m staying in the hospital with my son (we’re on day 5 now) so I’ve...

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What’s ADHD Like?

I’ve been following the ADHD subreddit lately:  http://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/.  If you have ADHD, you should join it. (Because you need something else to follow.)  Anyway, one discussion I particularly...

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Fake ADHD Isn’t Real (Part 1 of 7)

ADHD is a story we tell ourselves about a pattern of behavior.  As such, it isn’t real.  It’s not real in the sense that all the stories we tell ourselves aren’t real; they are mere...

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