In autumn 2022, BridgingApps team member Andi Fry visited New York City with her husband and daughter Megan, a University of Houston graduate student. Typical leisure travel adventure, except for one thing: Megan has extensive physical paralysis and limited verbal…
February is American Heart Month; March is National Nutrition Month. What better time than the February-to-March transition week to talk about eating habits, an acknowledged major contributor to the state of heart (and other) health? Groceries and nutritional counseling are…
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Sounds of Eden is a relaxing, meditative experience. Designed to inspire a sense of peace and calm within the listener. Walk through an endlessly generated garden where the only…
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Whenever Weather Kitty is opened, it checks its current location and pulls up an image of a cat or cats ready for the immediate weather, along with quick views…
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,” wrote the poet Alfred Tennyson, processing his grief after the death of a close friend. While mourning has its regrets, these rarely include, “I wish I’d never…
Wherever you live, chances are that natural disasters interrupt your business-as-usual from time to time. You don’t have to suffer direct injury or property damage: schedule disruptions, power outages, and evacuations impact everyone in the area. Even breaking-news bulletins can…
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Threema is an instant messaging app designed around privacy. Instead of using phone numbers or email addresses, a unique string of letters and numbers known as your Threema ID…
February is Recreational Therapy Awareness Month. Never heard of recreational therapy? Or assumed it was just another name for physical therapy? Read on! Do you believe having fun is good for everybody? If we’re talking about “everybody under a certain…
Somewhere in the digital universe, there’s a limbo that unused apps disappear into, perhaps never to be heard from again. While many individual users dump individual apps after the “honeymoon” period, it’s a day of pain and fury when you…
Everyone knows about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but there are “things everyone knows that just aren’t so.” Misconception: All PTSD cases look alike. Truth: No more than do all cases of autism, cancer, or Parkinson’s disease. Individual humans are far…
