Personal Musings

Though I love to make things up and be creative, sometimes I just want to write about my life, experiences, perceptions, travel blogs, and the like. This is a space to get to know me on a much more personal level.

This is also a space where my friends are free to write as well, when they have something to say!

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Bear Wiseman 4/14/26 Bear Wiseman 4/14/26

3 Bizarre Drunken Tales, & Why I Don't Drink Anymore

Some people have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Some people have weird experiences while drinking alcohol. Some people have enough weird experiences that they realize maybe they need to rethink their relationship with alcohol. In this selection of three stories, Bear Wiseman explains how she got to the point where she decided maybe alcohol shouldn’t be her substance of choice anymore.

Bear Wiseman 3/24/26 Bear Wiseman 3/24/26

A Magical Meet-Cute from a Friendship that Failed

The story of how Bear Wiseman met someone, in a most miraculous way, who would become her best friend for a decade, only to fade away without word after she moved to Finland…

Bear Wiseman 3/12/26 Bear Wiseman 3/12/26

Why I Used to Hate Women (pt.2)

Feminist Bear Wiseman admits that for a large part of her life, she didn’t like women. This collection of stories from Europe and Finland explain why she struggled so hard to find comfort and community in friendships with women even after she left North America.

Bear Wiseman 3/10/26 Bear Wiseman 3/10/26

Why I Used to Hate Women (pt.1)

Feminist Bear Wiseman admits that for a large part of her life, she didn’t like women. This collection of stories from Canada explains why she struggled so hard to find comfort and community in friendships with women when she lived in North America.

Bear Wiseman 2/10/26 Bear Wiseman 2/10/26

Building Bridges with My Body

Part 3 of the Broken Body series: the breath and fitness techniques used to have a breakthrough with my body

Bear Wiseman 4/16/25 Bear Wiseman 4/16/25

I Was in a Patriarchal Relationship with My Body (So No Wonder it Fucking Hates Me)

Part 2 of the Broken Body series: an honest yet painful reckoning with how patriarchy shaped my relationship with my physical self.

Bear Wiseman 4/2/25 Bear Wiseman 4/2/25

My Broken Body & How Western Medicine Failed Me Completely

Part 1 of the Broken Body Series: From negligence after whiplash through a few years as a CrossFit athlete, and landing in spinal spasms, my physical health journey explores just how little Western medicine really gets us and why it failed me completely.