Don’t Outsource Your Thoughts
One of the things that’s getting lost in our 24/7 hyper-connected, divided, news-as-cult-of-personality world is the ability to think for ourselves. To think our own thoughts, make our own plans,… Read more »
Category: Mental Health
Keep The Things You Love Offline
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how people with healthy, satisfied, and productive lives tend to avoid social media. Or at least excessive use of social media. Today… Read more »
A Few Good and Beautiful Things
The world is a cesspool. Yep, I said it. There seems to be no end to the crap that’s going down everywhere you look. Just when you think it can’t… Read more »
Think About What You’ve Gained, Not What You’ve Lost
Covid isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much we might wish it were otherwise. This long, drawn out ordeal isn’t anywhere near over, and the toll it’s taking on us… Read more »
I Have to Write, or I Become a Menace to Society
This past weekend I finally got around to watching Where’d You Go Bernadette?, a movie about a formerly-famous architect who’s having a bit of a meltdown because her life is… Read more »
Writing in a Pandemic
The world is a scary place these days. Not to mention it’s an isolating place. We’re all facing levels of stress, scarcity, and uncertainty (on personal, governmental, and economic levels)… Read more »
Quarantine Got You Down? Allow Me to Teach You How to Be an Introvert.
With the coronavirus sweeping the world, a lot of people are finding themselves doing time in isolation and quarantine. For introverts like me, this is actually a good thing. We… Read more »
What Missing Puzzle Pieces Have Taught Me About Writing (And Life.)
I’ve written before about the many general benefits of jigsaw puzzles, and the lessons they can teach about writing. Today I want to talk about the joy of missing puzzle… Read more »
The Analog Year
I’ve written before about how I tend to avoid New Year’s resolutions. Generally, I believe in fixing things as they need fixing, not waiting for some arbitrary date on the… Read more »
What’s Really Worth Worrying About?
*Spoiler Alert: Very, very little.* I am a worrier. Even if you discount the anxiety that I struggle with, I still spend far, far too much of my life worrying…. Read more »