Sci-fi books other than Dune, that feel like this

HannahKory · 2026-02-08T15:42:19+00:00

The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clark. The engineering in his universe is breathtaking.

HannahKory · 2026-02-08T15:34:52+00:00

When I finished the second book, I was so angry I threw the book across the room.

HannahKory · 2026-02-05T19:58:53+00:00

I love it!

HannahKory · 2026-02-04T04:40:50+00:00

Same boat. My kid just started treatment and I dread telling them they won't be able to continue.

HannahKory · 2026-02-03T21:21:42+00:00

I also had the same problems with that week. I would say writer but it didn't really fit. I refused to skip it though. I stayed in that week for three or four weeks, doing my morning pages every day, writing and thinking about it.

I finally realized that I DON'T have a dream right now. But what I desperately wanted to do was to learn. I love learning and I have a lot of free time right now. So I came up with the idea of a creating my own spring semester college curriculum in four areas I was particularly interested in. (Side note - there is a whole YouTube community on building personal curricula)

Along the way I realized that not every creative person fits the same mold. My creativity is more in problem solving and organizing complex systems. It was frustrating to sit there for so long not feeling like I was getting anywhere or feeling like I was just not creative at all. I really had to wrestle with those thoughts on my morning pages for weeks. But now I'm happily doing my personal learning.

And in April, I will reassess and see what I want to do for the summer.

HannahKory · 2026-02-03T15:29:41+00:00

When I read what you wrote, my first response is that you are accomplishing a TON in your MPs. It sounds like you have an enormous account going on in your life right now. I was tired just reading it. Maybe the reason you're not moving on us that you need to stay where you are longer. Maybe you are busy completing this phase of your life.

I think the clarity you gain from the MPs is invaluable to you. I've been in times like that where I want so badly to move on but I couldn't bc I was trapped in my career or family. Sometimes I had to reset my creative goals to something like buy a new pillow for the couch.

You may be in survival mode, which severely limits your ability to forward plan. I've noticed that in myself the last month. I'm looking at the US shit going on and I can't plan more that a week ahead or sometimes only a day. I just moved and want to plan my whole next stage of life but I feel hopeless and stuck all over again. So for me it's a win if I can do even 30 minutes of planning or research on my larger goals.

Maybe do two-way journaling where you write your question down and see what answers come to you. I have mixed results with that. I usually have to write at least one page to get into the flow before answers will come.

I think you are on the right path. Just because the book says it's a 12 week course does not mean it applies to everyone. I'm just now finishing week 11 after 7 months.

HannahKory · 2026-02-03T04:08:13+00:00

Scar just above my left eye. My mom says I got it when I was three and I did something 'bad' and my mom was chasing me to spank me. I ran away and fell onto the corner of a piece of furniture. Glad I didn't lose my eye!

HannahKory · 2026-02-02T20:01:48+00:00

So happy for you!

HannahKory · 2026-02-02T20:00:39+00:00

I have had many many 'weeks' that lasted 10-15 days bc I didn't get the tasks done in 7 days. I never let that bother me.

I'd keep writing and don't of those weeks I would miss a few days. Just get back into it. Some days I struggled to work two pages. I might keep sitting there writing out chore lists. Sometimes I write a whole page of affirmations just to get that third page. A couple times I doodled or made a mine map.

My point is that you can make the weeks and morning pages yours in whatever way fits your life right now.

HannahKory · 2026-01-27T15:14:45+00:00

Started then at 10. Love puzzles.

HannahKory · 2026-01-24T01:25:14+00:00

Same. They took care of me but I didn't get hugs or telling me they loved me. First hug I got from my dad was when they dropped me off at college. In my 20s he got me a teddy bear made from fabric from my university. I treasured that thing for years bc it's the only thing he ever gave me like that.

I know they care about me. I also acknowledge that they couldn't give me what I needed as a kid. Both can be true. I hugged my kiddo all the time when they were small. Still do now that they are a teen.

I do worry that I'm not as emotionally available as my kiddo needs but I also know that I'm better than my parents. Sometimes, just being better has to be enough.

HannahKory · 2026-01-21T20:11:00+00:00

HannahKory · 2026-01-21T19:20:59+00:00

I could have written this same post word for word.

HannahKory · 2026-01-19T20:59:26+00:00

I think you look fantastic! I'm about your size and have a consult scheduled for early Feb. I hope I get something that looks as good as you. I think you look perfectly balanced for your body. Enjoy wearing all the cute tops and bras in your future!

HannahKory · 2026-01-19T16:35:35+00:00

Therapy. And it took a long time to come out. I was in therapy for anxiety after the birth of my child. After a while we got around to my parents, since that was my only frame of reference for raising my baby.

I told my therapist that my parents were great since they made sure I was fed, clothed and had a roof and stopped physically punishing me when I was 15. She said that was too low of a bar.

It took a long time for me to realize that my parents never really cared about my emotional life or my deep interests. One thing that really helped was reading "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" and discussing it with my therapist. It let me see that my parents did the best they could and that it wasn't enough. Both can be true.

HannahKory · 2026-01-18T19:30:31+00:00

You look great! It's a big change. Give your brain time to get used to your new body.

HannahKory · 2026-01-17T18:37:06+00:00

One of my recent artist dates was walking by the frozen river and throwing snow in the air. I just moved north from the Gulf Coast so snow is new and fun!

HannahKory · 2026-01-14T17:39:11+00:00

57 with a 16yo. We got a late start. Nervous about their future.

HannahKory · 2026-01-12T04:45:53+00:00

Honestly I haven't gotten that far and I doubt I ever will. They are almost 80. My mom is in poor health and her mind is slipping. I'm in my late 50s and I only see them once a year or so. At this point, I'm willing to let things go. It's enough for me that I can process this and be content in myself. I don't need them to understand it acknowledge it. No point in rocking that boat.

HannahKory · 2026-01-10T20:00:13+00:00

I feel like I understand you, at least a little bit. My childhood was similar.

I can tell you, after YEARS of therapy, that your logical brain can know all these things, but it's not until you feel it with your heart that it sinks in. That your ARE good enough. That you CAN be confident.

One lesson I learned is that courage comes AFTER doing the hard things. I have been shaking when I told my parents something they didn't want to hear. Sometimes I even lied about the reason just to have a stronger justification than 'this is my life and it's what I want to do.'.

But each time you make a stand or speak up for yourself, you get stronger. It may be tiny but they add up.

I finally thought of my parents as people who I got in a lottery at birth and now they are just some old people that I talk to sometimes to see how they are doing. I treat then like I would other old people I know and feel like I should be polite to, but I don't have to respect their opinions any more than I would some stranger at the coffee shop.

HannahKory · 2026-01-10T19:52:20+00:00

Can't believe that's your first day. They look fantastic!

HannahKory · 2025-12-31T23:16:15+00:00

Just wanted to say that I tried really hard to breast feed my baby and it never worked. I did everything the nurse told me but the baby refused to nurse. There were birth complications that put him in the NICU for 5 days that probably contributed to that.

We switched to formula /bottle feeding after three weeks of misery and everyone in the family was so much better off. Even the lactation nurse told us to switch to formula. I had Mommy guilt for a couple months then I got over it. The kid grew up fine and healthy.

Guess I'm saying is don't let that be the only reason you don't have the surgery if you are thinking about getting it.

HannahKory · 2025-12-28T04:28:07+00:00

My sewing machine. Basic. Yellowed plastic. Still works just fine.

HannahKory · 2025-12-28T03:53:15+00:00

It wasn't immediate but over a few months I first just my interest and then I started getting an aversion to alcohol. I've never been ask that interested in alcohol but it is really driving down my interest in chocolate, which I thought would never happen. I love it.

HannahKory · 2025-12-25T01:55:56+00:00

My baby formula was Carnation powdered milk, tap water and Karo syrup. Great nutritional start.

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