Goal-Directed Persistence: My Goals and Values When I was in the hospital, Dr X encouraged me to work toward goal-directed persistence. I never really realized how serious an issue this was for me until the past couple of weeks. I was working on my book and I was super gung-ho about working on my book…
Continue ReadingTurtle Time
My little turtle and I have been spending a lot of quality time together lately so I’ve been making YouTube videos of him. I made one of me cleaning his tank but apparently it exceeded the maximum file size for WordPress. Fortunately, I was able to upload the video of his grunts. I recorded him…
Continue ReadingChildhood Trauma and My Blogging Philosophy
I put up a post in August ( https://apostateturtle.com/?p=843 ) in which I shared a video but didn’t explain why I thought it was important. This was quite the oversight because I actually thought it was deeply relatable, and that it both described my approach to blogging (and life in general) and also helped me…
Continue ReadingDocumentaries Worth Paying $$$ For
A little over a month ago, I put up this post: https://apostateturtle.com/?p=972 regarding global hunger, but I included a video that cast doubt on whether veganism was really better from an environmental standpoint. However, fortunately I have a vegan mentor and when I asked him about it, he had a lot to say! He had…
Continue ReadingVegan Pets?
I’m still doing the vegan thing. It has not been easy. Another resident had a birthday party and everyone was eating chicken wings and it was so hard to pass. My saving grace was previously the Impossible Whopper at Burger King (vegan when you order it with no mayo), but it’s a lot of money,…
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to count all the things that are going well right now
About a month ago I was reading one of my textbooks for school and it mentioned the !Kung people of Botswana, which piqued my interest so I took a break from classwork to google them. This brought me to an article that mentioned the recent bestseller “Hunt, Gather, Parent” by Michaeleen Doucleff. I can’t find…
Continue ReadingI Got a Job!
On Friday I was offered a full-time job and accepted it. I’m nervous but excited. I know that this wouldn’t have been possible without all the work I’ve done over the past several years when critics thought I was just being lazy. Getting to the new job without a car will be tricky and will…
Continue ReadingJob Interview in One Hour!
As an update to how my schoolwork is going, it’s going well and I’m scheduled to do my practicum next semester. This means that I need to be employed by a day care as an assistant teacher. I have an interview today at 11:30 and another one tomorrow. I’ve always been really, really good at…
Continue ReadingAre Free-Range Animals Happy?
With all my vegan bloggings lately, I’ve been wading through a lot of content that assumes that free-range meat is better. As I mentioned in a previous post I feel like environmentally it’s probably worse but that is not my topic for today. This time, I just want to point out that if you are…
Continue ReadingGlobal Hunger: The Other Reason to be Vegan
Since I’ve been writing about veganism, I notice that the two major arguments that people make the most are that veganism is best from the point of view of animal cruelty (which to me is indisputable, despite the fact that many will make vegans out to be bleeding hearts for having empathy), and that veganism…
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