I have many thoughts on taiji, obviously. In my previous post, I detailed what led me to start practicing taiji and some of the benefits I’ve received from it, as well as some of my struggles with it. The Sword Form is a delicate form, despite being deadly. It’s more about getting someone’s attention with… Continue Reading
Taiji and Me: My Not-So-Meditative Journey Within
Taiji is an integral part of my life, but I rarely talk about it. I’ve thought about why that is, but I can’t come up with a definite answer. I’ve decided to blog about it instead because I find that I can order my thoughts better when I write them down. Or type them out… Continue Reading
One-Hundred Percent, Unequivocally, Proudly Pro-Choice
On Black Friday, I watched on Twitter as a shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs unfolded real-time, and while I had to leave to go to my taiji class, I knew several things immediately. I knew that the shooter was overwhelmingly likely a man, most likely a white man, that he had mental… Continue Reading
Get Your Ideology Out of My Rigidity
I want to continue with my thoughts from yesterday’s post about my eating disorders, but take this post in a slightly different direction. Several years ago, I became aware of the fat acceptance movement, and I was intrigued. As an aside, I didn’t know that it started back in 1967, and I would agree that… Continue Reading
The World of My Weight
I started a post about the latest mass shooting, but then I stopped because I don’t have it in me to address it right now. So, instead, I want to revisit an old issue that is still something I deal with on a daily basis. It stems from the doctor’s visit I mentioned in my… Continue Reading
Assessing the Depression Assessment
Ed. Note: I have a tendency to edit a post endlessly as a way to prevent myself from actually publishing said post. I’m making the conscious decision to publish posts even if I don’t think they are good enough to publish just so I can have something up every day. Therefore, some of these daily posts… Continue Reading
Daily Post December
NaNoWriMo is over, and I ‘won’ it with ease*. Writing many, many words has never been an issue with me. In fact, when I used to write for ABLC, someone coined the phrase ‘pulling a Minna’ for writing any article over 2,000 words long. That’s like a sneeze for me,** so I don’t do NaNoWriMo… Continue Reading
Dark Souls, Part Three: Bringing Me to the Brink
Part two of this series is here. From elation to despair in a very short time span. That’s the nature of Dark Souls, man. I dusted off my disappointment as best I could and made my way back to the Undead Parish bonfire. I couldn’t help but notice that the common enemies were a breeze… Continue Reading
Dark Souls: Why I Keep Playing This Game, Part Three
This is part three as to why the fuck I keep playing Dark Souls. You can read part two here. Let’s continue with my frustrations as I battled Priscilla, an optional boss, time and time and time again. I went against my rule of not reading the wikis at this point. Priscilla had broken me,… Continue Reading
Dark Souls, Part Two: I Can’t Quit This Game
I wrote about my experiences with the game, Dark Souls, up to the point where I played through it a second time up to the point when I ragequit the first. You can catch up on my adventures so far here. Because the post was getting long, I decided to end it and start a… Continue Reading