Disdain for Facebook and All Things Social Media

Disdain for Facebook and All Things Social Media

I’ve been writing a lot lately here on my blog. It helps that I can now generate unique feature images for my content, thanks to some new features in the Jetpack plugin I use to support my website. I prefer to write here because it’s my space, configured...
Of a Love for Speculative Fiction

Of a Love for Speculative Fiction

I have loved speculative fiction ever since I can remember. As a kid I was reading on a grown-up level by the time I was in fifth grade, so I was reading novels by Dean Koontz and Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, and a whole host of others. Not everything I read at that...
Motivational Lows and Daily Living

Motivational Lows and Daily Living

I admit it. I haven’t done very well at self-care this past week. It’s not that I’m struggling with my mental health, really. More, it’s down to the fact that my motivation levels have been low the last week or two now. For example, I have...
Of Code, Security, Hackers, & Malware

Of Code, Security, Hackers, & Malware

A few days ago, I wrote on Facebook that I’d invested a significant amount of time in scraping malware hackers off several websites that I run and operate. I had found, through a Google search, a shell script that someone had developed to scan through your...
Little Windows of Mental Unwellness

Little Windows of Mental Unwellness

It’s weird. Almost every night before I fall asleep, I experience these moments of emotional chaos that are some combination of depression, anxiety, and snippets of other emotions that all coalesce into a slurry that makes my nerve endings stand on end. I know this is...
Psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology

It’s been a minute since I’ve shared an update on my mental health. I feel like I’ve been chasing the anxiety spectre for a long time, ever since I discovered eight years ago that anxiety was part of my mental health diagnosis. I’ve been...