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Tag: unpleasantness

  • Mental Health Wednesday April 2026

    Kintsugi is this year’s word. The idea is to accept a formerly broken object, and not just acknowledge but appreciate the scars telling that object’s story, maybe even admire that story and how that object is still together and functional. Apparently, we have yet to start gluing things together. It’s entirely possible that some of…

  • Mental Health Wednesday February 2026

    When I started writing this, I couldn’t report a downward spiral or an upward momentum at the time. I wouldn’t call it “homeostasis,” more like “dissociation.” Maybe. It’s eerie. It feels a lot like waiting. Waiting for… something. It’s exhausting. I’ve felt the effects of the heaviness in other ways; I have some routines, but…

  • Progress Report November 2026

    We have discovered that a large portion of the problems I’m having formatting my manuscripts is because my laptop is old, and Scribus is apparently a memory hog. Notice I said “a large portion of the problems.” The rest of the problems seem to be my ability to copy paste cut and format in a…

  • The Oubliette

    “Oubliette” is a French term, derived from “to forget”, and is a bottle-dungeon, in medieval architecture terms. A tiny space accessible only through a roof hatch, it was, perhaps, the most unpleasant of dungeons. My brain has a kind of Oubliette. At first, they were just downward spirals–I’d touch bottom, maybe hang out a little…

  • Writing with a TBI

    It’s hard. That’s the nicest way to put it. A more accurate way is that: it’s exhausting–you don’t realize how much brain power you used before, but you are very aware of your limitations as you run head first into the wall of crushing fatigue as it slams into you out of nowhere it’s heartbreaking–I…

  • Co-Morbidities Suck

    How many layers does this onion have? Damn. 2 years ago, the total body pain and physical fatigue had gotten to a quality-of-life point. For 20 years, I’d dealt with increasing joint pain throughout my whole body. I was at a point where I was in bed 16 hours a day, just to function for…