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“What’s with all the female filmmakers from Canada?” he asks. “What is going on up there?” He’s had a weird number of Canadian female filmmakers and screenwriters come down to his clinic with concussions. (Indeed, I myself now know at least four Canadian female filmmakers who have been to this clin…

Though he has already (insanely) guaranteed me a one hundred percent recovery, I want to confirm the details. I ask him if I will ever make a film again.

He says, “Absolutely you will make a film again. I’ll put it this way. You’re not going to be totally better until you make a film again. Be…

“You froze when this happened. It’s a way of manifesting anxiety.” He looks me right in the eye and leans in close, as though he doesn’t already have every molecule of my attention. He says, “If you remember only one thing from this meeting, remember this: run towards the danger.”

I should now v…

Craniosacral massage and a nine-week mindfulness-based stress reduction program do offer some temporary relief from the headaches. I meet five other people in the meditation program who are suffering with long-term concussions. We get together once in a while to share notes and resources on the var…

After years of clearing the land and cultivating it, the settlers in PEI were still paying rents to absentee landlords in Britain. The Tenant League was formed to support farmers who began to refuse to pay their rents. When the sheriffs came to arrest those farmers, neighbours would blow tin trumpe…