by Jim Stitzel | Apr 9, 2026 | General
I’ve been an atheist for some time now. I can’t provide an exact span of time because there was no singular date, no specific point, at which I suddenly said, “Oh, I’m an atheist!” That’s not really how it works when you’re deconverting from religion. It’s more...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 5, 2026 | General
I blame it on my evangelical roots, but as I contemplate my own spirituality and its glacial slide toward paganism, there’s a significant portion of my mind that wants to create a distinction between a god versus a deity. I mean, I get it: deity is just another word...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 22, 2026 | General
I haven’t done any kind of gaming or streaming to Twitch over the last 10 days. It’s the longest hiatus I’ve taken since I started gaming again at the beginning of January. Up until recently, I played something — usually either Destiny 2 or ARC...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 23, 2026 | General
I slept five hours last night. I was expecting seven, but of course my anxiety had other ideas. Do you know what it’s like to wake up in the wee hours of the morning, not yet fully awake but just semi-comatose enough to know that something isn’t right? You hear...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 12, 2026 | General
I feel like so much colorful trash today. (Yes, there is such a thing as colorful trash. It’s the same as regular trash, just, y’know, brighter. Don’t ask me how it works. I don’t make the rules.) Between sleeping much less than my usual number of hours the last month...