Category: Personal

  • A Digital Campfire

    A Digital Campfire

    Gathering Breadcrumbs has undergone a bit of a site refresh! You may notice brighter colors, “friendlier” art, and a format for archival entries that is easier to quickly peruse. In large part, I wish to thank my best friend, Dex, for being the inspiration for this, for encouraging me to give people the same sense…

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  • A Living Archive

    A Living Archive

    Too often, I forget that the quest for “perfection” is my way of procrastinating. This is likely part of a fear response, the nagging certainty that if I don’t achieve perfection on my first attempt (no matter how much experience I may have with something), it means that I am, inherently, unworthy. Instead, I will…

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  • Debunking as a Path of the Believer

    Debunking as a Path of the Believer

    The following was previously published in The Feminine Macabre vol 5 under my dead name. If you reference it using The Feminine Macabre, please consider using my chosen name, Dex Bryant, and updated link here. Thank you. There’s this idea that when you become a paranormal investigator that most if not all of the investigations…

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  • What Would You Do If Money Didn’t Matter?

    What Would You Do If Money Didn’t Matter?

    It probably won’t surprise you to learn that I’m a big fan of the podcast The Magnus Archives and its spinoff, The Magnus Protocol. The first time I listened to TMA I thought “this is it, this is what I want to do with my life.” Not in the getting-chased-through-London-by-Eldritch-beings sense, although I’m sure that…

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