Call to the Void
So, there’s this kid who made this video. He’d done a few YouTube videos, and he got his first “like.” And he was just so pumped because it meant there were people out there. That people actually saw...
View Article8 Tips for Asking People Out
This entry’s a bit different than my usual fare. After watching the video embedded below, I started writing a comment. After about 500 words, I realized it was more of a blog entry. Then I realized I...
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Wheelbarrows: A Story of Inspecting vs Questioning
Here’s a story I re-tell fairly often. It’s thought-provoking, I feel, and quite relevant to how we think about the world. While I originally read the story in Slavoj Zizek’s Violence, Zizek implies...
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An Extended Introduction on My Grandfather’s Blog Entry
I’ve talked about my grandfather quite a bit on this blog (most notably in the articles What Does Dying Feel Like? and Memento Nasci). Those articles are better introductions than the one I’m giving...
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“Ballpark Mnemonics”: a tool for learning foreign phrases
[The following is a guest post from my grandfather, Dr. Robert Wallace Blair. Check out my extended introduction for more details on my grandfather and this article.] “Ballpark Mnemonics”: a tool for...
View ArticleUpdates
You should start seeing a lot more on this blog. Rather than explaining the complex and convoluted stuff that goes into this, I’m going to make a snappy update to let you know what’s likely to happen...
View ArticleThe Diary of an Addiction (DoA) – Hub Page
This is the hub page for the collection of stories tentatively known as “The Diary of an Addiction.” The essays, stories, and thoughts here are collectively meant to describe my experience with...
View ArticleMorning Mists: Part 1
Every morning, I wake up in withdrawal. It’s not something you think about. The psychiatrist doesn’t mention it. It’s not on the warning labels. But the chemical teaches you, day in and day out, just...
View ArticleThe Symptoms
This entry has been revised for the DoA series. Originally written on July 18, 2014. As a few of you know, I recently decided to make another attempt at getting off of my ADD meds. As of today, I am...
View ArticleMorning Mists: Part 2
Loneliness feels like Scotland, the same way heartbreak aches like England, betrayal tastes like France, denial drinks like Ireland, and no place feels quite like home. I wonder, over and over, where...
View ArticleMorning Mists: Part 3
Edinburgh is a city that knows its own raw mystique but doesn’t brag about it. The magic is taken in stride: The gothic spire of the Sir Walter Scott Monument, the stark beauty of Edinburgh Castle...
View ArticleMorning Mists: Part 4
Doro went back to Germany. I went into the highlands of Scotland—to Oban, Tobermory, Fort William, the Isle of Skye, Inverness—wanting to see the colder climbs before the true winter set in. I was...
View ArticleThe Medicated Generation: ADD as an Issue of Incompatibility
Dr. Lucy Jo Palladino’s foreward for The Edison Gene provides a line in the sand for diagnosing ADHD. She wrote: In diagnostic terms, interference with daily living is the critical line that separates...
View Article“Color-Blindness” and the “Us-Them” Dialogue
So, for a variety of reasons, race has been a pretty major topic of conversation in the media right now. There’s a lot of controversy here I don’t want to dig into, largely because I’m too ignorant to...
View Article2014: A Year in Review
It used to be something an annual tradition for me to look back at the year that’s just past as we hit the new year, and I’d like to return to that now. It’s nothing too complicated, but a fun way for...
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Stimulants, My Health, and My 2015 Exploration
[In which I discuss how stimulants damaged my health, how health and weight are different, how our culture kinda sucks, and how I plan to fight it.] This last year, a lot of projects got put on hold...
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This Year: Rob’s Epic Quest for Health and Sanity
Over the last month, I’ve been focused on taking care of some huge projects. But that’s just one step in a complicated journey, and I’d like to take some time to talk to you about what that journey...
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Why I Don’t Believe In Calories
I just walked out of a stress management class where the lesson was on calories. This entirely well-meaning section of the course has been describing the “good” and “bad” types of calories, and...
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REQ Update: The Weeks Ahead
I mentioned in my previous post about Rob’s Epic Quest for Health and Sanity that I would soon be posting more consistently on some specific, health-related topics. I wanted to take some time to...
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Intuitive Eating: Review, Summary, and Key Takeaways
Yesterday, I finished reading Intuitive Eating, a book that claims to provide a “Revolutionary Program that Works.” I wanted to take the time to share the key takeaways from the book and discuss my...
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