We are all in this together

Captain’s log Colorado United States, Planet Earth Day 2 of Social Distancing. I joke, only kind of. I was a big Star Trek geek when I was younger and I can’t help thinking the current pandemic is a new frontier. The COVID-19 AKA CoronaVirus of 2019 has infiltrated the world to a level I have never witnessed during my time as a passenger on cruise ship Earth. This is a

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What apraxia taught me during the COVID 19 pandemic

What apraxia taught me during the COVID 19 pandemic

It is March 14th, 2020. Normally on this day my social media news feed is filled with jokes and memes about Pi day. Today though, I never even thought about it until I saw a faint shadow of a meme posted hiding in the onslaught of posts regarding the CoronaVirus – aka Covid-19. I am 39 years old. In that entire time I have been exposed to the Gulf War

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The five words and a report card that broke me

The five words and a report card that broke me

It started with 5 little words. “I hope I did GREAT!” my ten year old daughter with about every learning disability possible said yesterday in the car. She was referring to her report card after her younger brother had pulled his out of his backpack and celebrated for getting all 3’s. With this new grading system, kids are given a number of 1-4. No one really gets a four because

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Apraxia and the Mamba Mentality

Apraxia and the Mamba Mentality

At the beginning of 2020, the world received word that world famous basketball player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna. After his death, people were chanting and hashtagging #mambamentality. Though I had heard of the “Black Mamba” and the “mamba mentality,” in relationship to Kobe, I have never followed professional basketball that closely, and didn’t really know the origin of the phrases or what they

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