Fandom Didn’t Ruin My Writing. It Built It.
The Problem Started with Stargate SG-1 I was a stay-at-home mom with a newborn when Stargate SG-1 quietly rewired the way I understood storytelling. At...
Category: Life in Delaware
My observations about the world that is Lower, Slower, Delaware
AI and the Cognitive Decline
AI, Attention Spans, and the Quiet We Lost Long Before ChatGPT The Silence I Used to Protect I still love silence. Real silence. Not the...
The Soulless Assistant: Why I Use AI (And Why My Kid Hates It)
The “Spinning” Reality: AI as a Tool I Need For the last two days, my world has been a blurry mess. I’ve been stuck with...
Synthetic Sanity in an OSS World
So, I guess the newest “craze” is to generate an AI caricature of yourself. Who knew?? It is absolutely hilarious—and by hilarious, I mean a...
The Ego-Migraine: When Vanity Replaces the Law and the Protocol
I am writing this through a haze of physical agony. My neck is locked, my shoulders are on fire, and my head is pounding with...
For Suicide Prevention Month: My Semicolon Story
September is suicide Prevention Month. Suicide sucks, but our stories are not over. They are not full stops but semicolons, pausing a sentence rather than...
Thriving with Chronic Pain at Leidos
The Unseen Burden of Chronic Pain Ever had a day when you needed to function for work? Still, an unseen, ever-present vine slowly twisting and...
The Perfect Prompt Paradox: Using AI to Write More “Human”
Ultimately, the real test of a writer isn’t their ability to fool a detector; it’s their courage to embrace their own voice. This is the heart of the dilemma of engineering humanizing prompts—reclaiming our creative freedom. It’s in the willingness to use a word that isn’t on a sanctioned list, to construct a sentence that defies a prescribed length, and to let their unique life story bleed onto the page.
The Psychology of Collecting Our Soulful Treasures
The Allure of Accumulation Why do we as humans collect? From the earliest civilizations meticulously gathering tools and resources to today’s enthusiasts curating vast arrays...
Gaming as an Adult Beginner: My Journey from Skeptic to Enthusiast
My Unexpected Gaming Journey At 55, I never imagined I’d be crafting survival shelters in a zombie apocalypse or leading valiant inquisitors through epic fantasy...