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"Skipping Stones" - A Poem

AI Image Happy Mani’s Day! As a toddler boy, I stood in awe of my Dad skipping stones. As a small boy, my dad taught me to skip stones As a larger boy, I skipped stones while my Dad watched As a teenage boy, I skipped stones to get away from my Dad As a young man, I had no time to skip stones; more important things to do. As a dating man, I skipped stones after the lover’s embrace As a…

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The Grey Mage - Episode 1 - The Current State of Affairs

AI Image Happy Day! The Grey Mage’s Journal – June 18, 2025 It’s been a while since I have written in my journal, but I feel that things are getting interesting, to say the least. So, it may be time to start chronicling my life experiences again for the sake of posterity. But perhaps an update is in order, as my last entry was on the last day of 2019, between COVID and a few other things that…

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So What Will I Be Writing Here?

AI Image Happy Woden’s (Odin’s) Day! Coming back after such a long hiatus has actually been a wonderful feeling for me. But at the same time, it leaves many questions for you, the gentle reader, and me. Mostly, what am I going to write now that I am back? In the past, this was an everyday blog with different styles or topics of posts for each day, but I no longer think I want to do that. I…

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Black Dried Salty Tears – A Poem

Happy Sol’s Day! AI Image Black Dried Salty Tears – Poem Black Poison, Night, Your Heart Dried Corpse, Riverbed, Winter Leaves Salty Soil, Bitterness, My Wounds Tears Of Sorrow, Of Regret, Of Lost Love Writers Notes: There are a lot of firsts in this post – It’s the first post after a long hiatus where I have been growing my YouTube Channel – The Rabyd Atheist, and trying to put my…

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Self-Discipline and Details

Happy Freya’s Day! This last month has been one of reflection on what my future holds and no matter what type of beliefs you have about the future, it falls to the person to either just let things roll or develop the habits and discipline to get where you want to go. I have had numerous false starts in life. Ministry and Teaching in the Public Schools among them. Now I am looking at things as a…

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Pause, Reset, Re-Align, Restore

Happy Day! My struggles have always been easier when I have routine and discipline. The problem is that my hypersensitivity can rob me of that when my nervous system gets overloaded and then depression and anxiety can set in. For the last month, I have realized that the best time for me to establish routine and discipline is fall through spring. Summer is my challenge with all the sensory…

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"Lone Wolf" - A Poem

Happy Freya’s Day! “Like a Wolf I am drawn to the pack But I walk alone Outside its embrace I am and am not Part of the pack I watch over them High on the hill Safe in my sight they will be, I stand alone to be stronger Stronger than the pack Stronger for the pack Loneliness is the price I pay So they can be free So Lone Wolf I stay and howl alone in Luna’s face Until THE…

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Focusing My Writing

Happy Freya’s Day! So what is going well? I am getting up and getting to the gym before work every day and haven’t missed a workout since I made this change. My YouTube Channel recently got monetized at least with memberships, superchat. 1000 subscribers and I am making regular content. Enough watch hours in the near future and I could have ad revenue as well. Nice side hustle in the…

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Overreaching, Autism, and Essentialism

Happy Odin’s Day! I now know Why I struggle with goals so much. In short, I set way too many and then I fail at all but a few. I overreach a lot. Take this blog for instance. There was a time when I would post pretty much every day. It was one of my goals, but I had many others at the time, and they suffered. So I switched goals and tried to keep the goal of posting regularly up, and then it…

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'Love and Smoke' - A Poem

Happy ’s Sol’s Day! Love and Smoke! I had a Dream Last Night You Were There You Smiled at Me and walked Away I ran after you my heart pounding Fires of passion burning I reached out to touch your hand But poof, smoke Then Nothing but ash. My fire turning to smoke Writer’s Notes: I haven’t written in a Long time. I have been concetrating on my YouTube Channel and learning to cope with…

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Story Idea - Red Riding Hood Revised

Happy Odin’s Day! Alright, I am moving forward with things a little better. I know my routines work. The real issue now is habit and execution. That can take soem time so be patient. Thank you. I have had the idea before of taking fairy tales and giving them a modern and adult twist before but the picture above re-sparked an idea I have had before particularly with Little Red Riding Hood. If…

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My Three Writing Projects

Happy Mani’s Day! I want to elaborate on my three many writing projects at present to clarify my own thinking about them. So sorry for the info post again, but creativity is in the works. My first project is regular writing on this blog. But the change is going to be that this blog is now my outlet for the “What do I feel like writing today” itch. My other two projects have very specific…

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Getting Back to Writing with a Better Plan

Happy Freya’s Day! I want to, first of all, thank everyone for being patient and for your understanding as I struggle with my new understanding of myself. The old GI Joe cartoon used to say: “Knowing is half the battle”. The high probability that I have autism has been a major revelation of knowledge. How affects me is in some ways obvious and in others not so much. The real question is “Now…

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Why I Have Been Gone - Autistic Burnout?

Happy Tyr’s Day! If you also subscribe to my Youtube Channel Simple Life Philosophy, you already know that in therapy I discovered that I could be on the autistic spectrum. This has been a very revealing explanation of my past problems and struggles with what we know around here as The Grey. Depression. Depression is a symptom of a more significant issue with my nervous system, which may be…

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“Two Oaths and One Bond” – The Adventure Chronicles of Brightblade – Part 6 (A Dungeons and Dragons Solo Roleplay)

Happy Day! Elana let the water of the fountain pour over her naked body. She was preparing to receive the robes of being an Adept and so the ritual of purification in the fountain near the temple altar was something she was excited about. Two novices attended to her with towels ready to dry her off. The ceremony was an hour away and it was to be quite the affair as in addition to herself…

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“Rust and Bones” – The Adventure Chronicles of Brightblade – Part 5 (A Dungeons and Dragons Solo Roleplay)

Happy Day! Lief and Elana were wary as they passed through the short corridor to the west. The note they had found had said to ‘beware of the west’ and they were wisely moving slowly forward. Thirty feet of corridor later they entered a thirty-foot by thirty-foot chamber where they exited from the middle of the east wall. The room seemed empty except for some piles of what looked like red dust…

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“Return to the Cave” – The Adventure Chronicles of Brightblade – Part 4 (A Dungeons and Dragons Solo Roleplay)

Happy Sif’s Day! Lief and Elana traversed the winding path back to the cave entrance. As they approached Leif was filled with a little more confidence given that he had a couple days before had traded in his chain mail shirt and leather pants for a full set of chain mail armor including gauntlets and head covering. The money he had won the last time he was at the cave was now pretty much gone,…