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		<title>Brian Segal&#8217;s &#8220;Braindroppings&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Brian Segal, Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

Irked recently received the following one-sentence email from the Wisecracker Grandmaster—the ALWAYS funny, and NEVER dull Mr. Brian Segal:
 

&#8220;Just a thought I had. If there really is life after death then why can&#8217;t dead people get life insurance policies?&#8221;

 
Brian Segal is living in the country north of Montréal. He was diagnosed with multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fragments,&#8221; an unputdownable new essay by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Fragments
by Brian Segal
You had better write it down before your mind locks it up and throws away the key.
Walking down Crescent Street in Montreal at about 3:00 in the morning circa 1971. The colors and slightly mad thoughts of psychedelic drugs done hours earlier fading away. Finding a club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;My Shoes Will Last Forever,&#8221; an original essay by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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My Shoes Will Last Forever
An original essay by Brian Segal



It may seem odd to be writing an essay about shoes. I have my reasons, though. I have one pair of boots to use in the winter, two pairs of dress shoes, and two pairs of Reebok&#8217;s classic running shoes-or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Tomb With A View,&#8221; by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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A TOMB WITH A VIEW (or Things seem to be looking up)
by Brian Segal

 
As most people know, our little planet is getting quite crowded. I am not just talking about the teeming cities in certain countries, but more so about the available liveable space on our planet. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Surrounded By Time,&#8221; an essay about insomnia by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Surrounded By Time
By Brian Segal

I have had problems with insomnia. Perhaps that is not exactly the truth. I used the past tense in the first sentence. My difficulties concerning sleep deprivation were only artificially overcome with a &#8220;cocktail&#8221; of sleep aids (medications). My sleep may not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped In A Web Of My Own Doing (Or how vacuum cleaners and wheelchairs do not mix), by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Trapped In A Web Of My Own Doing
(Or how vacuum cleaners and wheelchairs do not mix)
by Brian Segal
Although I am in a wheelchair, I still like to try and help out with the day to day chores around the house. There are limitations of course. Shovelling snow off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man&#8217;s Best Friend (Or how the windows in my home were replaced), by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Man&#8217;s Best Friend (Or how the windows in my home were replaced)
by Brian Segal
I&#8217;m not really sure where to start this story so I guess I&#8217;ll take the advice of the king in Lewis Carroll&#8217;s story Alice in Wonderland and &#8220;Begin at the Beginning and go on till you come to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramblings on Becoming a Wheelchair, by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Before I start writing my little essay I would like to make a couple of things clear: Firstly, I accept the fact that I must use a wheelchair. My explanation to people who ask why I am in a wheelchair is simply that I have multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Four Weeks On Another Planet, by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Like many people, I felt that seeing a psychiatrist would somehow stigmatize me. If you&#8217;re a diabetic and take insulin no one questions you. But if your disease is of the mentally interesting kind&#8230;well&#8230;that puts you in a different category entirely.&#8221;
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I suffer from an anxiety disorder. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Musings on Using a Wheelchair, by Brian Segal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Some Musings on Using a Wheelchair
 by Brian Segal
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was 39 years old. The disease was slow in evolving. For a number of years I could get around easily enough using just a cane. As time went on, the cane turned into a [...]]]></description>
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