Monthly Musings - May

Worries about nuclear war and having fun with creative writing

Another month has gone by, which means another Monthly Musing for you, my paying subscriber. In these monthly posts, I write about what has been on my mind the past month as well as what has been going on in my life. Or whatever else comes to mind. I’ll be honest, when I sit down to write, I usually have no idea what is going to come out. It’s really exciting, and a little scary too, sometimes.

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The main thing that has been affecting me this month, as it has for a while, is the ever-escalating conflict in Ukraine. None of our leaders appear to understand or care about the risks that they are taking in letting this conflict drag on and on. Things that were unthinkable last year, have become mundane, with worries dismissed as if what they are doing is not anything other than flirting with global annihilation. Weapons. Satellite support. Planes. Drone attacks on the Kremlin. Where does it all end? How can we put the breaks on this train of no thoughts?

I have been reading Mary Shelley’s F…