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...
View ArticleSupplements 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...
View ArticleFree 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhere 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?
View ArticleGate 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...
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleDispatch 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...
View ArticleMonday 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...
View ArticleBook 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]
View ArticleReview 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...
View ArticleTaking 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...
View ArticleWhat’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...
View ArticleFake 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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