Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

It’s Halloween and most people are thinking about costumes and candy, but I’m thinking about tomorrow. NaNoWriMo – or shortened even further to “NaNo”, or even “nano” if you’re lazy –  is short for National Novel Writing Month. It has been in existence since 1999 and I became aware of it in 2003, but I…

With a certain billionaire taking a sledgehammer to a certain popular social media platform, I’ve been moving my social media presence over to Mastodon. Mastodon is a little complicated at first, but I think it’s going to be well worth it. You can find me over there at @thejustkat If you don’t have an account…

(Written in 2004) I think a lot of us have at one time or another asked, “Why me????” I have an answer of sorts. Well, a reply, in any case. You might not like it. But that’s okay with me, as long as *I* don’t have to hear you whine. First of all, just don’t.…

Originally written in 2003 Let’s face it: I know very little about grammar. Oh, I have a good grasp on the order in which words should go, but I don’t know much else. Year after year in school they taught me. And year after year I managed to pound it into my head just long…

Originally written in 2003 The phrase “reasonable and proportionate” has been on my mind a lot lately. Both in terms of mood and reaction. I think it is very important for me as a bipolar person. In a nutshell this is because everyone can be moody, everyone is exuberantly happy sometimes, everyone is blue sometimes;…

Originally written in 2003 Human beings are sentient omnivores. This gives us certain rights and obligations with regard to other creatures. We eat just about anything. Our bodies are designed to have a certain balance of these things. Certain cultures have ‘evolved’ to have more tolerance for a diet weighted more towards meat and probably…

It takes only the briefest of scrolling to see that I haven’t made much use of this blog over the last……. six years. But my writing career – and I use that term very loosely – has chugged along without it. The fourth Daganu book, The Long Dark, is out via Smashwords, but is not…