So this the first time I’ve seen a legitimate alert being send using this service. There was a previous alert sent during covid to test the system, but this is the first time it’s being used proper.

Crying at Movies

I rarely cry at movies, but there are two that really made me tear up: The Impossible, a film about the story of a family separated during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, starring a much younger Tom Holland. The family reunite at a hospital, the three brothers first, then the father, then the injured mother….

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Rewriting History

9/11. The fallout from that was, and still is, felt to this day. Almost everyone knows where they were the day it happened. I was working when the announcement happened when the news broke. In the weeks after, the company I worked for, along with many, many others, started feeling the financial strain. Within months,…

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Uncertainty

Badly. I fall apart when dealing with uncertainty, literally.

Podcast Episode: Reflections On Growing Up

Pip: MorriganKig is out here asking the questions therapists charge by the hour for — what would your future self say, and when did you realize you were a real adult? Mara: These are Morrigan Aensland's recent responses to daily writing prompts, and they cover two distinct territories: the slow, unglamorous business of growing up,…

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When I started having trouble with opening boxes with my bare hands…

Future Vision

“Bear with it, it doesn’t get any better, honey.”

Faith in Humanity

There was definitely one time, I was driving home and I saw a small black blob at the side of the road. I slowed down and that blob started walking across the road — it was a small kitten, tiny. Then out of the blue, a guy appeared and started stopping traffic, while keeping a…

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Future Vision

Putting aside all the temporal chaos and “Butterfly Effect” ripple that would potentially cause, I’d hope she would at least tell me if I made it in cosplay or not