Month: May 2013

  • Camp Our Time and Self-Advocacy

    Listen to this post:  Get ready for some pretty awesome self-advocacy! The other night I went to a benefit event for the upcoming documentary, “The Way We Talk,” by Michael Turner. While there, I met Emily. She was sitting next to a table of t-shirts she had designed. Here’s the shirt design. Emily is raising…

  • Film for education and advocacy

    Listen to this post:  Not long ago, my brain injury made a decision for me: go on medical leave from my job as a speech therapist because I was too impaired to work. Um, awkward. Didn’t I just finish this degree where I learned how to help people with brain injury get back to their…

  • Working with Linda Chase from One Week Job

    Listen to this post:  I love to carry on about how easy it is to write comedy films and stand up comedy routines about my regular daily life. But one thing that’s hard for me to joke about is my new disorganization and inability to hang onto the bigger picture and the small details at…

  • Tommy McHugh’s amazing brain is a brain

    Listen to this post:  Why? Now, there’s a pretty popular yet unsettling question: why? Why are some people artsy and some people science-y? Why are some people worried and inhibited and some people carefree and uninhibited? Maybe there isn’t a solid answer. And yet, people have observed for a long, long, long time that sometimes…

  • Painter Kris Haas launches USA Projects campaign

    Listen to this post:  Here’s some super exciting news! It feels like Kris Haas and I have sometimes moved in parallel lines. And now we have made a circle. My first idea for making “Who Am I To Stop It” came because I wanted to share with the world my appreciation and admiration for Kris…