[[Note: trigger warnings for mental illness, bipolar disorder, medication, and some spoilers for Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette.]] These days, I call it burning, but for most of my life, I called it flying. It’s that feeling when you’re wrapped up in a writing project so hard you look up, and half a day has gone by. […]
This week hasn’t exactly been a fantastic time for me. Losing a parent can really make you get stuck in a maudlin, even slightly dark frame of mind. So it’s no secret that seeing photos coming out of Hurricane Harvey of elder folks near drowning in a nursing home due to lack of evacuation and […]
It’s a Friday night in Jersey City, and I should be at a larp. Instead, I’m in a hospital bed in the local emergency room with an IV in my arm. My roommate Craig is sitting with his iPad nearby. We’re joking over the latest antics from the White House and the recent defeat of […]
I’ve been reading a lot of words of encouragement lately about how to be a better writer. How to motivate yourself, engage with your readers, what to do and what not to do. A lot of it has centered around the idea that creative folks have a tendency to be extremely self critical about their work. […]
Personal post incoming. You have been warned! There are currently four, count them FOUR, articles half finished in my drafts box. Why, you ask? Why are they unfinished as opposed to gracing this blog with their presence? I’ll tell you why: side effects. In a previous article on this blog I talked about being […]
There is nothing more satisfying than completing a project. Used to be in the old days I’d be afraid of finishing something. If you finish a project, you have to let it out loose into the world and talk about it and let other people see it. That used to be frightening. These days, there […]
It’s been quiet so far on the home front here at my blog. And that’s probably because it got mighty busy around the holiday season. Graduate school final projects are no joke and then the holidays hit, which included my birthday and New Years as it does every year. In between all of that, of […]
