I know. This comes as much a surprise to me as it does to you. But it's true. I, Stefers the Great, have a date. Hmm. This is how I'm feeling right now. This too. I guess you probably want some details... I'm reticent to say very much just to protect the privacy of involved, but I'll try to give you as many details as is responsible. Surprisingly enough (or perhaps not at all), this date absolutely does not stem from any of my #AdventuresInOnlineDating posts on Instagram. I've known this gentleman for nearly 20 years, and I'm kind of in love with that idea. I may choose to expound upon that later, but time will tell if this goes well or not. For now, we'll just call him The Gentleman (TG for short). Anyways, TG asked me out a few days ago, and we have a date planned for February 18th. Yeah, it's a little odd that we're waiting nearly a whole month before actually going on a date, but you know what? I dig it. First things fi

I'm going to school for nursing. Well, I will be anyway. I'm currently enrolled in Anatomy & Physiology II at Nashville State (I took Anatomy & Physiology last semester) in the hopes of enrolling in a nursing program this fall after I take General Psychology this Summer. I have to take these prerequisites because my oh-so-helpful degree in Operatic Performance from Ye Olde Belmont University didn't so much cater to a career in nursing (nobody's fault but my very own), but it's been a nice reintroduction to school, how it works, and just generally being held accountable for things related to my own learning. School is real weird, y'all. My first foray into A&P was good. My teacher left a lot to be desired, but I caught onto it pretty well. I attribute most of my success to the fact that MomLady and Popsicle are in the medical field and, as such, I was raised with a great deal of medical jargon and general healthcare know-how. My parents also

by: Bradley W. Schenck If you've known me for any length of time or have been reading this blog for a while, you most likely know that I am working on - and have been for quite some time... sigh... - a space opera that focuses on a ragtag group of space pirates roaming the far reaches of space and just generally behaving unethically. General info is located in ' The Big, Bad WIP ' section of my website, but be warned, all of the information is woefully out of date as the plot and characters have taken drastic turns since putting together those initial write-ups. At any rate, one of the things that I want to focus on this year is actually getting all of the nonsense I've written under this idea into a cohesive unit. Lord knows I've been twiddling my thumbs on this idea for a long-ass time. I've gotten myself a yearly subscription to Novlr as a means of keeping myself accountable and also providing a certain amount of organization to my writing (good Lo

Hello there, loyal lovelies. It is Week 2 of 2017, and I have had a particularly active week with my #AdventuresInOnlineDating posts on Instagram  (come follow me!). I started the 'Adventures in Online Dating' series a little over a year ago to bring a bit of attention to how people - men specifically - behave in the online sphere. It's because of my experiences with online dating that I have chosen to completely disregard dating as a whole and am firmly resolved in a life of single excursions to far-off places and untethered independence. Some people aren't meant to marry, and I may be one of them. And that's ok. This isn't to say that I've given up entirely. If something extraordinary shows up, I'll hopefully have the ability to see it and grasp it with reckless abandon. But there's a very important word that I've used in that last sentence: extraordinary. I'm not settling, and I'm not going to shrug my shoulders at m

There is a school of thought that New Year's Resolutions do more harm than good , and I agree... with some caveats.