Erik's Thoughts And Ideas
Just a little platform to share some essays, maybe some short fiction.
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I've gotten married, adopted a dog, and published a new short story and an audiobook of the old one since I lasted updated this blog! I also talk about sports and how I will cut back on caring about them!
I am a weak man and I can not deal with the world as it exists so I must dive into fiction to escape from the horrors.
The last of my old essays, this time on tattoos and what they mean to me now versus what they probably meant when I got them.
Inspired by another blogger on Bluesky I decided to write a little roundup of the things I read and watched in July.
A quick essay running through a mind altering experience that gave me a harsh look on our world and how a book made me look at the world a little more hopefully and brightly.
A short essay where I consider how lucky I am to have ended up where I am today, and fabulate about how bad things could have been if things had gone different at any point in my life.
A slightly longer piece about how important creativity is, and how I've embraced it after denying myself the joy of being creative for about a decade.
A short blog about how I figured out what I needed to do to fix my schizophrenia and depression issues in my teens and twenties and improve my mental health to great in my thirties.
A short little blog about how occasionaly being on the verge of figuring it all out scares me as a schizophrenic.
A little writeup of the last days of our beloved cat/son Jånni's life.
This post features the first few pages from my recently published short story Four Cats And A Life Improved, on the occasion of the anniversary of Simba dying, which sparked the creation of this near-biographical story.
In the early days of my schizophrenia's development, a science blog and my brain's failing chemistry worked together to convince me I didn't exist and nothing was real.