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Thank God for Amphetamines
Earlier this week, I was formally diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder by a psychiatrist. I am forty-one years old. Looking back, I have been struggling with this for my entire life. My adult life has been plagued by an inability… Continue reading
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Escapism Via Cruise Ship
I have always been an escapist. As a child, I sought escape by hiding among the trees, climbing up to the top or concealing myself in the branches at the bottom of the giant pines in the yard. I dreamed… Continue reading
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Book 2 of 2026: The Road
If you’d have asked me two weeks ago when The Road was published, I would have guessed the 50’s. There’s something about the apocalyptic, vaguely post-nuclear landscape of The Road that strikes me as deeply rooted in the visceral fear… Continue reading
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Book 1 of 2026: Are You Mad at Me?
I’ve always enjoyed pop-psychology books. Psychology in itself is a super interesting subject, but academic psychology can be dry and unapproachable. Pop psychology books are a great way to explore the world of psychology without having to dive in to… Continue reading
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Happy 2026!
2025 is over and 2026 has begun. I’m not normally one for retrospectives. I’ve spent a lot of my adult life thinking about mistakes and miscalculations I’ve made, wasting thousands of hours of mental energy on endless rumination, marinating in… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Flip
Today I finished reading The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal. The Flip is an exploration of how we must bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities in order to take… Continue reading
American Gnostic 