The following is excerpted from Paul David Wilson’s article, “Lost and Found.” You can read the full article here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-david-wilson/lost-and-found-an-article-about-living-with-aphasia/10150413987590035/  On Friday, January 1, 1999, New Years Day, I have a stroke. In the hospital, a friend talks to me.  I want to respond but I cannot...

Well, it's World Stroke Day (http://www.worldstrokecampaign.org/) so a great day to post.  As they say on their site—"Stroke affects everyone - we all have a reason to prevent it." Personally, I want to help raise awareness about and prevent stroke so fewer people have to...

Well, Labor Day was yesterday and it’s now exactly 7 years since my stroke on 9/5/2010.  Recovery has been a long and challenging road. Progress can be slow, and it can be difficult to accept the changes that have occurred.  I’m back at lake Tahoe...

In April, I spoke at Harvard Business School's Gender Conference. I was really nervous. It's a conference run by my close colleague Robin Ely. I've gone several years in a row. This was my first time speaking. I talked about how my identity as a tenure...

Six and a half years later, I am writing another chapter in my book Identity Theft, while I’m also writing another chapter in my story of stroke recovery.  I spent the month of May in Chicago doing another four weeks of intensive speech therapy at...

March was a tough month for me.  Partly because I really wanted to do more than I got done -- like improve this site, post blog entries regularly, etc.  I need more help than I want, and progress has been slow.  It’s frustrating. But also because...

The working title -- Identity Theft -- was the brainchild of friends of ours Steve Goodman and Ruth Levine.  Over dinner we were talking about the book, and I was describing my frustration with not being able to do all that I used to do.  That I no longer...

Thanks for visiting this new blog. We're excited to launch this online community, where I hope to create conversations that can help stroke survivors (and others who suffered different debilitating events) succeed in their journeys back to health.  Specifically, on my own journey, I found lots of resources about...