OCPD Putin Broke My OCPD 26 Feb 202225 Feb 2022 My life is largely a balancing act between two mental health issues. On the one hand is my social and generalised anxiety, and that drives me to be a people…
Anxiety I Hate My Body (Too) 18 Feb 2022 Where does this even go in the spectrum of my mental health stuff? It's hard to say with any precision because the only person who knew any of it prior…
Writing My Literary Process 18 Feb 2022 As an unpublished author, I try to refrain from talking about my process publicly because the lack of publication always felt to me a condemnation. The truth is that my…
Aislyn's Oak Tree About Aislyn’s Oak Tree 15 Feb 2022 The name of this blog probably seems fairly arbitrary to many of you. The words themselves are nothing complicated - "Celtic" and "Riverside". Most people will have at least a…
Aislyn's Oak Tree A River Flows Forth 14 Feb 2022 A river flows forth from a cyan lake Reflects the heavens, serenity's wake It meanders through a soft, snowy glen Then dimples back neath rosy fields, Eden A river flows…
Aislyn's Oak Tree My Religion 11 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 Devout, she is my religion everything in which I believe my source of everlasting life the gospel of my mass After all, what is religion without the promise of forever?…
Mental Health… An Open Love Letter 2 Feb 2022 I believe we do not control who we love, only how we love. Love is not a feeling but a collection of feelings that compels us to act. In good…
Mental Health A Most Perfect Contradiction 31 Jan 20224 Feb 2022 Humans are contradictions. It's something that I find beautiful and frustrating (see how easy it can be?). We can hold two disparate beliefs sincerely at the exact same time, be…
Mental Health My Belief Matters as Much as Your Fact 31 Jan 20224 Feb 2022 My parents have a somewhat ornate clock hanging in the wall in their dining area whose battery died years ago. While they never, ahem, found the time to get it…
Writing Tips for Writers 26 Jan 20224 Feb 2022 This post is both traditional and antithetical. The Internet is full of tips for aspiring writers: about content, about process. As a writer myself, I sometimes struggle with the simplistic…
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