web log
- Sunday Reflection: Good Work on Building Barely, But Here
- I’ve nearly completed a transcription publishing pipeline I’ve wanted since 2005
- My Substack is back online with purpose.
- Audio Transcribed into WordPress Draft; Completely Private
- My local transcription pipeline.
- AI helped me develop a free solution to a real problem: using AI in 2025
active projects
Bert.ForSale
Handmade artwork in the age of AI
With 30 years of experience online, selling my time and valuable skills to others, I’m now “for sale” for myself. I make artwork.
I share stories behind the artwork created from a lifetime of personal experiences, and what influences—internal and external—played a role in its creation.
Barely, But Here is a space for honest writing about living with invisible depression, dissociation, and survival after life collapse. I share from lived experience—decades of masked mental illness, divorce, homelessness, financial loss, and starting over later in life.
Sharing an invisible inner life, consumed by depression and now rebuilding, so people who struggle silently feel seen and less alone. If you’ve ever felt invisible while life kept moving, this may feel familiar.
MOst recent POSTS…
- Losing Agency Part 1: The Erasure
- Hypervigilance: The Survival Mechanism That Never Shuts Off
- Functional Depression
- Masking: Or How I Learned to Pretend Everything’s Fine
- Dead to the World
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My Psychiatric Hospital Diary — Day 04
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My Psychiatric Hospital Diary — Day 03
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My Psychiatric Hospital Diary — Day 02 — Audio
- My Psychiatric Hospital Diary — Day 02