Welcome to the Diary of a Distracted Genius

Okay, so. Here we are. I’ve been putting this off for a while not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I had too much to say and not enough focus to start. Which, honestly, is probably the most on-brand way to kick off a blog called Distracted Genius. Let me explain what […]

Life on Hard Mode.

Nobody handed you the difficulty setting. You woke up in the middle of the game — already running low on health, some quests pre-failed, the map only partially revealed — and someone told you this was normal. That everyone starts here. But you looked around and suspected, quietly, that it wasn’t quite true. Some people […]

How Did I Get Here

I know this place well. The edge of the bed. Complete darkness. The kind of silence that has nothing gentle about it. And somewhere in the middle of it, the same question surfaces — how did I get here? The frustrating part isn’t not knowing. I know. I’ve done the reading, the research, the honest […]