Author: geckojudo

I have to be honest with you. I am suffering from a serious lack of creativity lately, and I believe it to be the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. How, you ask, can I blame this crisis of creativity on SARS-CoV-2? It is easy. I do not watch television except to catch the occasional weather … Continue reading COVID and creative numbness

I just woke up from a nap—a much-needed nap. I woke up at 0100hrs this morning and had been up since then. My psychiatrist has suggested that I switch my medications up to a night schedule so that I am up at night and sleep during the day. This would be an experiment for two … Continue reading Happy Father’s Day and a few other comments

Well, we are getting some April showers . . . in mid-June . . . and we are getting a nice soaker of a rain so that the trees and flowers and grass can actually get a drink instead of everything just washing away. We really need the moisture here, though. We just fell under … Continue reading A rainy writing day

Today is stressful. I feel a heavy anxiety weighing on me. I feel like I need to be doing everything and nothing all at once. No, this is not boredom. This is a stress that stems from my upcoming online graduate class that I have to read and annotate two novels for. I have chosen … Continue reading Anxiety and worry, stress and fury

I printed out the grading rubrics and module requirements and everything else that I could, including the syllabus, for SNHU’s ENG 510 “Studying the Craft” course that will begin on 22 Jun 2020. That is a mere week and a half from now. The professor contacted me regarding the disability services that I will need … Continue reading A decent day and some prospects for the future

Yes, I will admit that I have been remiss in my bloggin duties. I have been terrible so far this month in posting regularly. For that, I am truly sorry. I get just as much out of writing my blog posts as people do out of reading them, and perhaps more. I have not only … Continue reading Remiss in my blogging duties

Everybody ages. We get old. Everybody dies. That is life. When we are young, we think we are invincible, and often we are stuck in a mindset of a 20-year-old (if we are lucky enough to be stuck at that elderly age in our minds instead of 14) for the rest of our lives. We … Continue reading Realizing my mortality

I woke up at a few minutes after 0300hrs this morning. The fan in my bedroom window has done a lot of good in helping me to sleep more comfortably now that it has gotten hot and remains warm at night. I need a cool environment to sleep in. I got up because I had … Continue reading Behavioral activation

I got an idea for a new short story this morning while I was in and out of sleep! It was a half-conscious idea that I somehow kept developing upon while I was dozing. I think they call that lucid dreaming or something, but I am not sure. Do not quote me on that, but … Continue reading A great story in the making

My mom and I went out to the field this morning to mow along the road ditch. The ditch bank is very steep and it is also along the highway. I played lookout while my mother mowed with her push mower. It was slow, grueling work, as the grass was three feet tall. I noticed … Continue reading Out at the field