Fear of flying

It’s what everyone does after a while, but I enjoy writing on this site. When I opened up my page, I was really startled to see that I hadn’t written in more than a month. Wow. Anyway, I had never flown on an airplane until I was 27, which was about two months ago (I’m [...]

How do you like my anxiety-riddled brain?

Really now, I’m too tired to get into the whole history of my cross, a neurological glitch called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It’s been about 15 years or so since the symptoms began; extreme doubt, fixation, panic, worry and fatigue. What came upon me was mysterious. I was 12-years-old, and a storm of hormones and stress; [...]

I wish I were wanting to run more

I used to love to run, but in recent years–as my waistline has grown–I have ceased to enjoy the feelings it gives me. I’m not sure why, either. I like to be alone with my thoughts, particularly when they are not the chaotic ones that are brought on my life’s stresses and a weird neurological [...]

Airport

I watched some jets take off and land at the airport in Albany. It was pretty nice, actually seeing the jets taxi down the runway, the engines picking up steam. Then they would turn on even harder and the pilots would shoot the jet fast, heading this time in the other direction. The planes would [...]