My Unremarkable Brain

Hey, Gang! I know it's been a while since I've posted here, and I'm sure you've been absolutely lost without my witty, thought-provoking drivel. But I haven't been sitting on the couch watching TV and feasting on pork rinds (that is to say, that's not all I've been doing). No, sir.  I've been working with a great group of fellow writers and an editor to help me take my work to the latest and greatest, most bleeding-edge format: a book! While this blog can be kind of all over the place, the book will specifically focus on the stories of people -- myself and others -- who are living and thriving with epilepsy, thanks to a low-carb or ketogenic diet. It's a project I've been wanting to do for quite some time.  There's lots of information out there about keto, and there are lots of stereotypes about people with epilepsy.  In this book, I mean to upend the stereotypes by telling the true, inspiring stories of folks who have taken contr

Last night at a party, a fellow working-stiff friend and I were giving a hard time to two of our retiree buddies.  “You need to be productive,” my friend said.  “Napping all the time, goofing off… you need to accomplish something.” It brought me back to one of my favorite reads (and re-reads) this year, Dr. Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep .   Walker, a sleep scientist at UC Berkeley and self-described “ Sleep Diplomat ” gives a fascinating and layperson-friendly overview of the science behind why we need sleep and the hundreds of benefits that it offers.   From the benefits for memory (forget the all-nighters, kids), heart health, muscle and bone repair, athletic performance, mood, cognition, hormone regulation, and more, he shows that your sleeping hours are, in fact, the most productive hours of your day! The book (and, for the attention-span-deprived, his TED Talk )  is chock-full of mind-blowing facts and scientific studies.  But at this time of year, one seems parti