In January of 1989 Mike Strand suffered a severe brain injury followed by a 10 day coma after his pick-up was broadsided by a semi-truck. He was in the hospital for 8 weeks and had a lengthy recovery. After the first year he had completed all his rehab therapy, but as we all know, he was far from recovered. He has spent the past 24 years steadily improving himself. Since 1998 he has been a regular columnist for the Brain Injury Alliance of MN’s newsletter and he has published his best and most popular columns in a book titled “Meditations on Brain Injury” available from Lash Publishing, his second book, containing more recent columns, will be available later this summer.