It happened again. I haven't been posting on social media about migraine attacks, or nerve pain, or falling for two reasons: I've been focused on using social media for writerly efforts and managing two other social media accounts and have gotten rather handy at scheduling my posts a week or month in advance, and because… Continue reading My Contribution to the 12th Annual “Headache on the Hill”
Tag: Advocacy
Are you keeping up with the changes? Life & Social Media
We've all heard some version of the old adage, "If you're not changing, you're dying." Since you last read a blog post from me, I've done a lot of changing. July and August was spent working on a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for my book Why's That Dog in Here? (it wasn't successfully funded,… Continue reading Are you keeping up with the changes? Life & Social Media
Beware: Mental Illness Affects All! You should know…
In 2006, while I was rehabbing from strokes and heart surgery, another member of our family was diagnosed with mental illness, and consequently hospitalized a number of times. Up until that point, we were blissfully ignorant of mental illness. We quickly learned that it affects not just the one with the diagnosis, but everyone who… Continue reading Beware: Mental Illness Affects All! You should know…
Advocacy–Everyone can do Something
Recently a friend made a comment about all the advocacy tweets, posts, pictures, etc. on social media. She was annoyed and tired of it, and trying to figure out how to block it all. As I was chatting with her about the different forms advocacy took, she also wondered aloud what the purpose was of… Continue reading Advocacy–Everyone can do Something