Why Euro Truck Simulator 2 is Good for the Mind I HAVE already waxed lyrical on here about my enthusiasm for PC and console games. Whilst some guys my age are content to chill out in front of the TV (and there's nothing wrong with that), I prefer to star in my own dramas. For …
Why Saying “Hi” Still Matters THERE IS something almost quaint about the idea of greeting a stranger. A brief 'hello' exchanged on a pavement, a nod to a passing walker, a smile offered without expectation. In an age of constant purported connectivity, such moments can feel oddly subversive—small acts of recognition that dissolve detachment and …
Header image: Statue of Sir Edmund Hillary looking toward Mount Cook, New Zealand 'On 4 January 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary and his New Zealand party reached the South Pole. They were the first to do so overland since Scott in 1912, and the first to reach it in motor vehicles.' NZ History - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/ I …
Introduction IN OCTOBER, 2023 I experienced a nervous breakdown. I wrote of this in June of this year, in my post titled 'The Raven.' Upon leaving hospital I inevitably did so laden with a cocktail of prescription drugs. One of these was the so-called 'anti-depressant,' Sertraline. Now, after gradually reducing my daily dose, I have …
A Post COVID-19 Autopsy 'Fill them with news that they can’t breathe.They will feel like they are drowning in information, but they will think they are intelligent.' - Ray Bradbury IN EARLY 2020, the word pandemic became an everyday term — repeated in headlines, political speeches, and on endless, real-time news feeds. The world was …
I have recently shared on here details of my mental health crisis. It was one which, ostensibly, began sometime in 2023 but which had, in all likelihood, been present for decades. An inherent fault line. All that was needed was a trigger to set in motion a total collapse. My post 'The Raven' catalogues that …
Embracing the Beauty of our Flaws WE ARE, all of us, flawed. Sometimes those flaws are visible—a scar, a disability, a noticeable quirk. Some remain hidden in the recesses of our minds and hearts—anxiety, past trauma, low self-esteem, or simply the crushing weight of perceived inadequacies. And yet, we live in a world that idealises …
Campfires and Redemption Two years ago, I was swamped by stress. Every day was a battleground on which I was relentlessly assailed by threats, conflict and emotional strain. Every day blurred into the one that followed, and I was fast running out of ammunition. Books and movies no longer entertained me—there was too much mental …
It was April 15, 2021 that I wrote and published my first blog post on here. I called it, ‘The Cheapest Form of Self Care,’ referring to the health benefits of journalling. It began with a confession: 'It's fair to say that diaries have never really been my 'thing'.' Oh, I liked the idea of …
Continue reading #100: The Cheapest Form of Self Care (Revisited)
WRITING RECENTLY about my mental health crisis and the long, torturous path to recovery was challenging, to say the least. The story was raw, deeply personal, and not an easy one to share—or, I imagine, to read. So in this post, and as a postscript to my previous one — ‘The Raven’ — I’d like …
RAVEN MOON 