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patients and doctors

By: Kate Davies Designs March 24, 2017March 25, 2017

recovery, stroke, writingAllan Ropper, brain, Henry Marsh, Jill Bolte-Taylor, My Stroke of Insight, My Year Off, neurology, Oliver Sacks, phenomenology, Robert McCrum, stroke, Suzanne O'Sullivan126 Comments

I have been doing a lot of reading and writing of late. It feels like a total luxury to be spending my days with books and words and I am enjoying it immensely. As well as writing a good chunk of my own book, I have enjoyed reading a lot of other people’s work. I’ve…

a pod of one’s own

By: Kate Davies Designs July 25, 2011August 8, 2011

recovery, research, stroke, the life of thingsa room of one's own, academia, Oliver Sacks, recovery, space, stroke, Virginia Woolf, work31 Comments

We live in a typical, late-Victorian, Edinburgh tenement. It has high ceilings, and the rooms are reasonably sized, but there are not many of them. Most of the other flats in our building have an extra room which has been created by the division of the kitchen into two. But we kept the large kitchen,…