Dr. Google Will See You Now
Online diagnosis feels like control. The internet offers probability without presence—information without wisdom, data without diagnosis. It’s the…
FEELING
always on edge feeling
The Body as Borrowed Machine
The body speaks in automotive metaphors we pretend not to understand. We don't have bodies—we are bodies—yet the…
The Architecture of Fear
Safe, Not Successful: Living in the Architecture of Fear I work harder to avoid getting fired than I…
The Fortress of Self
With strangers, I’m patient and gentle. With family, I’m irritated by their slowness and frustrated by their forgetfulness.…
The Kindness Gradient
With strangers, I’m patient and gentle. With family, I’m irritated by their slowness and frustrated by their forgetfulness.…
The Isolation of Caring
This is the loneliness of environmental consciousness—seeing connections others don’t and acting anyway. It’s the ache of eco-anxiety…
The Pull of Older Clocks
My circadian system runs on older software that answers to the sun, not the spreadsheet. The 9-to-5 assumes…
Why Storms Wake Us: Electric, Honest Weather!
Lightning splits the night and attention snaps into focus—thunderstorm energy wakes the body like a tuning fork struck…
Let Winter Be Winter: Rethinking Productivity
December arrives like dense fog while deadlines demand summer speed. In seasonal depression productivity, biology honors darkness even…
Stress Dreams Meaning: Rest That Breeds Chaos
Sleep as Refuge, Dreams as Labyrinth I go to sleep to escape the confusion of waking life but…