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This Week. [3 min read]

This week someone asked me to read over a funeral tribute and give my feedback. Did it flow? Was it too churchy? Did it seem cold? Was it hopeful enough? Funera...

Painful Delusions [5 min read]

I’ve always had frequent headaches. . As a fairly young child I remember my grandmother lathering my forehead with “Alcoholada Glacial”, it’s menthol coolness s...

The feedback loop. [4 min read] Reflections on an anxious mind.

As a kid I spent a lot of time in small church gatherings. Some of them were casual meetings in people’s living rooms but many of them involved anywhere from a ...

Monsters. [3 min. read] Some late reflections on Halloween, Monsters & Demons.

Zombies, white walkers, Demogorgons and dragons. Gruffalos, gremlins, Heffalumps and Woozles. We love monsters don’t we? . Or more precisely, we love to hate ou...

Depression's slow leak. [4 min read]

I went supermarket shopping yesterday. Eggs. Milk. A bottle of wine. I had the day off and babysitting lined up for a couple hours. No toddler to wrangle, no ru...

Light as a fucking brick | iPhone Sketches | Digital fingerpainting

Drawn in Adobe Draw on an iPhone 7 finger painting style (no stylus) Another in a series of periodic experiments sketching on my phone. I've not been feeling gr...

Life is a race. And other clichés [3 min. read]

Type “Life is a Race” into google and you’ll get over 450 million results. > Life has been compared to a race… journey…a highway. Millions and millions of times...

"Just trying to Swim" | iPhone Illustration | Digital finger painting #2

Another sketch created on my iPhone sans stylus....

Honesty (On lies, narcissism and puzzle pieces in my brain) [4 min read]

I find myself coming back to this theme over and over again. Honesty. It’s one of those qualities we collectively think of as good, virtuous. We encode it in co...

I spent the first twenty years of my life listening to other people’s life stories. [3 min read]

Drug addicts, Abuse survivors, A prostitute, Alcoholics, Gang members, That one guy that claims to have killed people, Rape victims, Suicide survivors, More dru...

"Finger painting in the digital era" | Phone illustration

I'm experimenting with drawing doodles/illustrations on my phone since my tablet is dead and I rarely have traditional supplies on hand. I couldn't find a stylu...

I'm happy! One of my artworks will fly to a new home! ^_^

When you're really tired,  physically and emotionally, as I am in these last days, may be difficult to stay positive. You can feel your mind pretty heavy a...

Mind Cancer, Baader-Meinhof & Chris Cornell. [5 min read] Depression, Stigma and Sharing our Stories

When a thought doesn’t leave you alone. If you’ve never heard of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before you’re probably about to see it everywhere you look. > “Th...