The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 30, 2025

“I have writer’s block!” Might be a good start.

Spent my afternoon spraying sod webworms, the frost you sent us only reinforced their resolve to kill my grass

There’s always ChatGPT or DeepSeek to help you along.

Anxiety is something that’s finally getting the attention of people. It can do strange things to a person.

I’m too anxious to comment.

Dear Diary, nothing happened today, again!

I’m worried someone will read it; I’m worried no one will want to.

write what you know: anxiety…

Hey Chip! You’re always coming up with good stuff. You never get writers block?

It’s a possibility, Gladys!

Catch-22!

Gladys obviously doesn’t have enough to do. She might look into getting a part time job and helping with expenses.

It’s true what they say! Write your feelings, activities and memories down and relieve your mind. Now the journal owns it! ☺️

maybe try drawing random things instead… but I’m sure you’d just end up with a similar problem. :J

Well , it was nice to have asked anyway Brutus .

I’m always amazed that the authors of these strips can come up with ideas day after day.

This reminds me of a line by Leonard in “The Big Bang Theory”:

“You know how insecure I am about my insecurities!”

Nothing entered, nothing gained. I’m too lazy to write a journal of my life. If I ever accomplish anything worthwhile on this earth, someone can write about it and God already knows it if someone doesn’t and that is all that counts to me. However, if Gladys is serious about writing a journal to reduce stress as her end game, she has the wrong motive. Just write about the weather of the day, add a news story of the day and a comment on how you feel about it just to get started. I am sure she will figure out more to write as time goes on. Also, I might choose the end of the day rather than the morning if she is going to set aside a time. However, just write no matter what. Nothing entered, nothing gained….

Make it a memoir, there’s no pressure to write

Good one! We need it today.

Just write whatever is on your mind. Start with a line or two or fill the book about your anxiety. It might help.

Ok let’s all channel Mel Brooks here (sing with me!): “High anxiety/ whenever you’re near/ High anxiety/ it’s you that I fear…”. Hey that would be a perfect theme song for Brutus when Rancid is nearby!

Are you sure you want to do a chronicle of your disaster of a life?

I can never think of what to say. …….

try coloring. nothing eases my jitters like coloring – well, pounding on the piano helps too

Writer’s block photo on Google has Adam (Adam at home)

gladys is anxious to think of something to journal about…