Why save the world today, when you can put it off until tomorrow?
I recently took a writing class—one with a focus on personal narrative for the purpose of writing a memoir. Since I put a lot of work into the assignments, I’ve decided to post (most of) them here. This is the first such essay. Our prompt was to tell the story of our name. This is […]
I’m at a Neurology appointment today. It’s just a followup, if memory serves correctly, but I believe we’ll be talking about medication. He’s going to have me start doing injection therapy for migraines and then slowly wean off of one of the daily pills I take. I’m not thrilled about the prospect of the injections, […]
I don’t know when it started, but my earliest memory of wanting to be a writer was in third grade. My teacher gave us a project where we had to write a story to match some printed out drawings and form our own book from it. She knew it would be something I was interested […]
When I was a kid, around thirteen or fourteen, I liked to pretend I was immortal. I was going through that phase where children begin turning their imaginations toward things other than make-believe play and I was starting to mourn the loss of schoolyard fantasies. Pretending to be Dragonball Z characters at recess was no […]
2023-11-21 – Today marks the birth of my daughter! Yep that’s what I wrote six months ago before being distracted by something and immediately forgetting about this post. Looks like the last thing I wrote was Minecraft Memories almost a year ago. Whoops. I didn’t forget about the blog, it’s just been hard to find […]
School Sickness Season is upon us! Aust Jr. started his first year of preschool in mid-August and the Nerevar House hasn’t been healthy since. The First Sickening Cold number one occurred around the twentieth of August. My son was actually sick on the day of his birthday party. The poor little guy only had energy […]