Tag: memory
Publishing Woes
Posted: November 11, 2017 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: cognitive overload; mental fatigue, Depression, Executive Function, flexibility, Frontal Lobe, memory, rainbow;moon; cognitive overload; initiation, Spirit, stress, structure
An experience happened to me this week that reminded me of the challenges of having a brain injury. I read an article run in the New York Times years ago this week. I shared it on Facebook with the following doctor’s quote lifted out. “People hold on to hope that just as when they survived […]
Read more...“Always Go to the Funeral”
Posted: April 17, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
The sermon on Palm Sunday (April 13, 2014) at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church was called “Always Go to the Funeral.” I remember thinking, “Okay Mark (Ramsey), what does going to a funeral have to do with Palm Sunday?” I decided to go with it anyway for he often comes up with thought provoking titles. He […]
Read more...Walls
Posted: March 27, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory
I’m writing a lot about the pool this month because I miss not being able to swim laps. I spoke with someone in the locker room at the Y this week who told me it’s been three years since she has been able to exercise fully. That helped put my situation in perspective, although I’m […]
Read more...iPad Mini
Posted: May 11, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Android, iPad Mini, memory, mental fatigue, organization, resting brain
I bought an iPad Mini today. I recently saw a webinar about devices which will help make life easier for someone who has a TBI. It was really for folks who work with brain injury survivors and not for the survivors themselves. It’s funny because while I have many, many challenges now, I still can […]
Read more...“On Our Way”
Posted: January 23, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, disability, Dr. Martin Luther King, journey, memory, mental fatigue, resting brain, survivor
Mark Ramsey and Kristy Farber, the two pastors at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church here in Asheville, NC are doing a sermon series on communion, baptisim, funerals and marriages. Last Sunday the day before Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Mark preached about funerals. I couldn’t help thinking, “Now how in the world is he going to […]
Read more...Waiting In Darkness
Posted: December 10, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory, overstimulation, resting brain
I went back through my blog and noticed how in my last few posts, I sounded rather depressed and frustrated that I have a TBI. In fact, I didn’t like reading them for this reason. However, I participated in an action on Saturday about the water issue here in Asheville and it energized me. I […]
Read more...“All or Nothing”
Posted: August 22, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
The picture at left is of a book by Kathleen O’Connor called Jeremiah: Pain and Promise. I’ve always disliked Jeremiah and I’ve tended to skip it because it is so violent. The God it depicts is not a God I want to serve so I’ve ignored it and focused on other parts of Scripture. In the preface […]
Read more...One wild and Precious Life.
Posted: April 24, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory, mental fatigue, preaching, resting brain, stress
At the Good Friday service at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, one of the speakers read from “The Summer day” a poem by Mary Oliver It really stuck with me and if you want to read it here’s the link: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html . I had heard it before but hearing it then was just the right time. She wrote, “Tell me, what is […]
Read more...Holy Week
Posted: March 31, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: memory, overstimulation, perfectionist, preaching, stress
Mark and Kristy lead a class on the Resurrection stories and art at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church (GCPC). In the first session, they laid out 15 paintings depicting the Resurrection in art. We were asked to look through them selecting the ones that drew us in. I saw glorious images of Jesus ascending into heaven […]
Read more...Memory
Posted: November 10, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I preached my favorite sermon Hagar: A First Person Sermon last Sunday at Circle of Mercy. I’ve preached this sermon several times and I must say, it’s a pretty good one. I wrote it when I was a student at Central Baptist Seminary in Kansas City in the early 90’s. I preached it again at […]
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