In 2016, I published my first novella through Kindle Direct Publishing and a company called Createspace (now owned by Amazon). Titled Pirate Ophelia, it is an adventure story about a woman and her desire to become a pirate, giving a fictional, almost feminist twist to a story sprung from bits…

When I was a kid, I was one of the very few girls who played video games. It wasn’t something that girls did back in the 1980s. Little girls were supposed to play with Barbies and baby dolls. They were supposed to play dress up and pretend to be wives…

Halloween used to be my favorite day of the year, but since I moved to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the Halloween spirit has been seeping out of me until it was fully drained. Lebanon is very anti-Halloween compared to York thanks to the droves of Mennonites and uneducated idiots who think this…

In 2018, I came up with the idea to start my own business centered around geeks and nerds like me. As Toys R Us died, I wondered where I would go to buy the fun things in life: collectible action figures, stuffed animals, LEGOS, video games, and so on. While…

I often find myself wondering why I am so different than most people. I do not think it is entirely because of my anxiety, and doubt it is because of how I was raised. …

So of course when people find out I have anxiety, they like to give me their opinion of how they think I should cope with it. Though some are from people also suffering who like to share their techniques, most are from people who really have no concept of what…

Continuing from my last post, let us look at the main question: what is it like to have crippling anxiety? I consider mine to be “crippling” because it affects my ability to do simple tasks, like drive a car, for example, or sometimes just leave my home. Most people do…

In an attempt to explain my anxiety to my husband, I searched the internet for effective ways to do this and found a lot of useless information that was more often about positive thinking than actually living with anxiety. However, I did come across a few articles written by people…

Originally published on the author’s blog on March 12, 2023. Random comment the other day: what is it like to be me? It’s stressful, that’s what it’s like. You get to solve everyone’s problems and be empathetic, but rarely do you receive the same in return. Partially because others cannot…