Work continues to be overwhelming in the extreme, so I took another dip into my archives and pulled out some material from one of the other periods in my life when I was incredibly overwhelmed; grad school. Here are a few musings from November 2018 about why I write things down, with a side of […]
It feels like everyone these days is stressed out. And as if we didn’t have personal problems, the media is practically designed to wear us down — advertisers trying to get us to buy things politicians trying to get us to vote for them the Next Big Thing to binge watch that page-turning bestseller you […]
[Meta Note] I don’t usually do content warnings because I don’t tend to have particularly heavy content, but fyi the main topic of this post is death including discussion of old age, cancer, and violence. Specific mention is made of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. This post also contains frank discussion of mental health […]
One of the most (in)famous lines from the Harry Potter series takes place in the first book, where Hermione says “We could have been killed, or worse, expelled!” Ron’s equally (in)famous response from the movie is not actually in the book, but it I find it relevant to to topic of this post: “She needs […]