Learning To Be The Fool

I feel like I’m beginning to learn how to fail correctly. I’ve failed plenty of times before, but I don’t feel like I learned much from those times. I could only focus on how horrible it felt and how I had to keep myself from failing, even if that meant never trying again.

The Glorious Glitches of Skyrim

The glitches in this game are so funny it kills me, and I have to make a list of the best ones I've encountered.

Recent Media Consumed

Recent reads and watches, and a few thoughts on each.

Critical Thinking Gains

A moment to celebrate something that has not (and still does not) come easy to me: I just employed critical thinking in a conversation.

In My Weakness

In my weakness, His strength is made clear. Made obvious. A light to anyone who knew how unable to overcome you were.

Confessions of a Fanfic LIFER

Fanfic writers are born fanfic writers. Plain and simple. There is no other explanation for this carefully hand-written story that I came across the other day.

The Hero Stage

Some days I feel like a child, struggling to express feelings and concepts while only having basic words to work with. These days, every third sentence out of my mouth seems to start with, "Well, Jordan Peterson said..."

Poetry is not Penicillin

I don't know who said it first. I don't know who came up with the idea. I know who passed it on to me, and even from the first it disturbed me. I've fought with it since then, even as some vestige of it taints the enjoyment of my craft and plagues me with guilt.

To Change The Things I Can

There's a funny little aspect of self-hatred I noticed recently and I want to mull it over here. Most of the time, I am focused on how to deflect or negate or block out the horrible things the voice in my head shrieks. Only recently did I start to think, "But it's not entirely wrong."

Recent Media Consumed

Recent reads and watches, and a few thoughts on each.

Brain Screech and the Conversation Post Mortem

Sometimes I wonder if everyone has implicitly constructed a myth around a magical state of being called "normal" or "stable" where a person doesn't have random surges of anxiety or unpredictable plunges into depression.

Camp Food Hacks

During a recent visit to my favorite camp, I managed three food hacks with camp mealtime supplies and figured it was worth a post.

Abortion

Recently I received this question from Askfriend, "What's your opinion about abortion?"

Introducing "Askfriend"

"Askfriend? Who is Askfriend?" Well, by asking that question, you might be.

Tea Cookies

Probably Sergey's favorite cookies, but only one person in our family knows how to make them perfectly. Recently I got down on my hands and knees and begged to be taught the sacred recipe. I was granted my boon...