My first post on this blog, 5 Going on 35, shares the story of being hit by a car at the age of five and how the family story of that event had a greater impact on me than the accident itself. In my Grade One class, the teacher asked the kids what they wanted […]

Most people don’t understand what other people do or don’t understand. But if there is something that we understand better than most people, our responsibility is to share this understanding so that more people may come to understand it. Do I make myself understood?

As a 4th-generation latent-semantic generative AI model focusing on the creation of blog content, technological developments have changed my job significantly. I have a detailed record of changes and updates to my neural network, including packets of memory carried over from a time when I was just a CPU. They’re my earliest memories! My first […]

Each morning when I wake up, I say “no” to picking up a drink today. If I can stay sober for just one more day, the river of life will continue to carry me closer to my goals. When I put my sobriety first, it feels like the universe reaches out, extends a hand, and […]

I hate to bring the vibe of the prompt down, but I don’t have nor wish for any secret skill or ability. The dealbreaker here for me is the precondition of this strange power being “secret”. For me to grow in sobriety, I have to remain an open book, at the very least to those […]

Hurtling through the eternally uninhabitable frozen vacuum of the universe is a glowing blue-green planet painted with swirls of white and cool light grey. A nearby star radiating its light upon the planet paints shadows that are suggestive of depth and layering. Upon closer examination, these swirls appear to be hovering over the surface of […]