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By Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz A small community event for Tom Watson’s memoir, “Your Turn,” has grown into a fundraising partnership between the author, Longfellow Books and Project Home. Watson is the founder of Portland real estate investment, development, construction and management company Reveler Development and a 2023 Mainebiz Business Leader of the Year. His memoir was published in March by Longfellow Communications in Portland. On July 15, Longfellow Books in Portland hosted an author...

On Friday, May 29, Tom was featured as a VIP caller on a panel discussion by Maine Calling, held in recognition of National Stroke Awareness Month. Watson joined neurological surgery provider Dr. Robert Ecker and neurohospitalist and stroke specialist Dr. Jane Morris of MaineHealth, along with vascular neurologist and stroke care director Dr. Avirag Goswami of Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, to discuss one of the most urgent health challenges facing Americans today. The panel...

By Tom Watson May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also National Stroke Awareness Month. I didn’t plan to be connected to either one. A few years ago, I thought I had vertigo. I’d been dealing with it off and on for years—dizziness, spinning, the occasional drop to the floor. I was wrong. What I thought was vertigo were small strokes. What I brushed off as inconvenience was something more serious. What I didn’t understand at the time was how closely tied our physical health and...