7 Expert Cons Your Brain Pulls On You
This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is about counterintuition. Counterintuition is a seemingly simple concept–it represents a truth that is contrary to common sense or the…
Read articleThe Missing Childhood
I had a very severe head injury when I was in my late teens or early twenties. I can’t remember exactly when it happened because I…
Read articleThe Meaning of FOG
Daily Post prompt: Explain why you chose your blog’s title and what it means to you. Goldfish was taken. The end. Alright fine, not the end.…
Read articleBrain, I Worry About You
I know you’re not exactly a normal brain. Between childhood meningitis and a massive head trauma in our late teens/early twenties, when we lost the ability…
Read articlePhobias: I Ain’t Skeered.
Phobias are interesting. Are there species besides humans that have irrational, yet all-encompassing, fears of things like walking (Ambulophobia) or fear of nudity (Gymnophobia)? No. Most…
Read articleA Little String & A Stuffed Donkey
I have this voice in my head that tells me that everything is meaningless. It tells me that I shouldn’t bother with any of it, that…
Read articleStuff I Collect
When I was a kid, I collected rocks for some reason. When I was little, my family traveled by motor home to every state in the…
Read articleMind Reader
If you could read minds for a day, would you? Hell, yeah, I would. It’s only for one day, right? If it was a permanent feature,…
Read articleDon’t Drop Your Brain
I break things all the time. I have what one would call butterfingers. I got this trait from my mom along with wide feet that make…
Read articleCrazy
Yes, I am. For a number of reasons, which I won’t enumerate at the moment, I am seeking professional assistance with my brainpan. My brainpan, more…
Read articleBrain FAIL
My brain is not to be trusted. I don’t have the best brain. It does not remember things it should. If you’d like to know why,…
Read articleBad Brain Days
So You Want To Be A Writer From sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski if it doesn’t come…
Read articleFuck You, Sandman!
Besides not getting hit by a bus, humans need to do four basic things to survive – eat, drink, breathe and sleep – and I suck…
Read articleGoldfish
It is strange to think that most of the people you’ve ever known in your life are still out there continuing on without you. Everyone you…
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