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2025
Dec 21 To sigh a deep sigh of releasing
Dec 14 Do you want to read a detailed post about eyelid surgery? Here it is. With photos.
Dec 12 Telling myself stories
Dec 10 Gratitude knows that there is always a gift
Dec 7 All feelings mean something but it might be something dumb
Dec 6 Dishonesty is a rejection of life
Dec 5 Fish bowl
Nov 13 My new business + tech podcast
Nov 8 Outside sad is better than inside sad
Nov 3 Who’s in charge here anyway
Oct 31 Duck duck duck dichotomy
Oct 24 Love letters 11-13
Oct 22 Make rules, break rules
Oct 9 Reading notes: August, September
Oct 1 Two small UI things that might not bother me if I were a completely different person
Sep 30 Shelter or prison
Sep 24 Why do I love my Pika guestbook so fucking much? Let’s discuss.
Sep 2 Encourage purposeful friction
Aug 26 Ritualize anything
Aug 22 Quit being support staff
Aug 12 Navigating the Obvious Shoulds
Aug 3 Small Web July recap
Jul 30 Reading notes: May, June, July
Jul 27 Let there be lapses
Jul 26 Hey, I care about you, but I do not care what the robot says about you
Jul 26 Setting up an iPad for blog reading and small web browsing
Jul 9 Small webbing along
Jul 8 This is not the greatest cat in the world; this is just a tribute
Jul 7 Week notes: Road trip edition
Jul 2 The inevitable result of what we do today
Jul 1 Small Web July
Jul 1 A few big choices
Jun 30 Dead happy
Jun 29 44
Jun 20 Exploring and diving
Jun 19 How I have benefited from racism
Jun 17 Spam mail from the universe
Jun 3 Things Jesus taught
May 28 When you can’t decide
May 16 These are my kids
May 12 Reading notes: April 2025
May 11 A neutral stance is for weightlifting, not for human rights
Apr 30 Before the next beginning
Apr 28 People can change
Apr 26 Every small thing you do actually matters
Apr 25 Seems like this is real simple though?
Apr 15 How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
Apr 14 It is the work of the writer to reclaim the language
Apr 12 Do you have questions about tacos?
Apr 7 Tomorrow might feel better
Apr 3 Break dumb rules
Apr 3 Reading notes: March 2025
Mar 28 Small mercies
Mar 12 How little we know of each other’s existence
Mar 9 Love letters 9-10
Mar 4 How to clean the bathroom
Mar 1 Reading notes: February 2025
Mar 1 Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced.
Feb 25 Inconclusive neck region
Feb 24 Urgencies are yappy little dogs
Feb 22 I’m glad I was married, and I’m grateful to not be married anymore
Feb 21 Blog challenge - Music edition
Feb 20 If you don’t, somebody else will:
Feb 16 Painting yourself into a corner
Feb 15 Talk about the thing itself
Feb 14 A good day for love
Feb 11 A good night for old cartoons
Feb 8 A good day for sandwiches
Feb 6 I’m gonna keep making shit and I hope you will too
Feb 5 Your personal brand makes me want to vomit
Feb 4 My real-life friends don’t blog but if they did they would be good at it
Feb 3 Blog question challenge 2025
Jan 31 Good advice from Burkeman
Jan 31 Reading notes: January 2025
Jan 30 Ignore this if you are a complete success
Jan 27 Build a life you can live in
Jan 24 I am a cishet white woman and it is undoubtedly my voice that will save the trans community
Jan 23 Fuckity fuck fuck
Jan 22 Anti-narrative
Jan 21 Today I am sad
Jan 19 In fearful times, turn toward the light
Jan 16 When you love something made by a terrible person
Jan 14 I am full of schemes
Jan 13 It’s okay to not know, and it’s okay to wait
Jan 10 Art is the way
Jan 10 False equivalencies
Jan 9 What courage feels like
Jan 8 What to worry about
Jan 7 Do you dabble? Meander? Peruse and putter?
Jan 6 Love letters 6-8
Jan 3 Anticipation, experience, satisfaction
Jan 2 📋 Good advice for somebody
Jan 1 Love letters 1-5
2024
Dec 29 One bucket at a time
Dec 28 Retrospective, reading
Dec 27 📱Default apps (2024)
Dec 25 Joyful, joyful
Dec 20 Asking too much of the fediverse
Dec 17 Retrospective, financial
Dec 13 I will trade you this muddy shitball for that shiny marble
Dec 12 Expect obstacles
Dec 11 Emotional buffer zone
Dec 10 Love your body (of work)
Dec 9 If you feel okay, feel okay
Dec 8 Practice by doing
Dec 3 Joy is in the doing
Dec 2 November is over, finally
Nov 26 Elements of creativity
Nov 25 Several hundred things at a time
Nov 22 The problem with individuality
Nov 21 Burn, build, bridge
Nov 19 Is it funny if I’m the only one laughing?
Nov 18 You’re the only one
Nov 17 Empty
Nov 13 In praise of creating crap
Nov 12 Start the thing
Nov 10 Community building & traditions
Nov 9 I keep finding great people
Nov 8 Bits and pieces again
Nov 5 In which poetry saves my soul
Nov 4 What’s the most consequential decision you made in your life to lead you to this moment?
Nov 1 What makes me vulnerable?
Oct 31 Doing dumb stuff faster is still dumb
Oct 29 Bits and pieces
Oct 27 It sure will
Oct 25 This post is not about body wash
Oct 24 Fumbling for the words
Oct 22 Faith doesn’t look like being brave
Oct 20 Relationship circles
Oct 17 How to do the RSS
Oct 15 How to be confident
Oct 13 The week has gone, the week is ahead
Oct 12 I love your week notes and day notes and art and lists
Oct 11 I have to talk about my secret hairstyle
Oct 10 I wonder if I was a good wife
Oct 9 Systems and change
Oct 8 Dear friends and family who are thinking about voting for Trump
Oct 7 I love getting older
Oct 6 Just do the thing
Oct 5 To walk open-eyed through the earth:
Oct 4 Feeling alive is where it’s at
Oct 3 A brief history of (my) blogging
Oct 2 Sometimes, sadness
Oct 2 Prodigy stories from ye olde Internet
Oct 1 Time zones
Sep 30 Spinning your wheels
Sep 29 Writing is a myth
Sep 28 Transitions
Sep 27 Social circles and straight lines
Sep 26 Moving to Pika
Sep 25 Pause at the top of the slide
Sep 23 The thing itself
Sep 11 12 things to avoid for better conversations
Sep 11 11 tips for better conversations
Sep 6 The small Internet
Sep 5 No feeling is final
Sep 3 A venn diagram of dating options
Sep 3 Substitutionary grief; Or why I am crying over a crushed flower, an insurance commercial, spilled milk
Sep 1 All that is within me
Jul 5 I am adamantly opposed to urgency
Jul 1 The gift of dissatisfaction
Jun 29 Just one damn thing after another
Apr 4 How to be the most powerful person in the room
Apr 2 We are tiny
Apr 1 It’s all very serious
Mar 15 It’s just a blog
Mar 5 Today in the news
Feb 1 Insecurity
Jan 26 A few questions to ask when you’re (un)certain
Jan 23 The blessing of uncertainty
Jan 9 Love depends on me
2023
Nov 26 Time for a mud-scraping session
Oct 20 Dammit nature
Oct 18 The kids are okay
Sep 1 Self care
Aug 24 Under pressure
Aug 14 Rumbling at the bones
Aug 10 A blessing for your day
Aug 7 What we don’t know
Aug 4 Optimize for delight
Jul 31 Big things and tiny things
Jul 28 Fuck it
Jul 27 Being the dumbest person in the room
Jul 24 Books are just books
Jul 20 How to change
Jul 19 All the things we feel
Jun 29 Growing up
Jun 2 Here we are, you and me
Mar 2 The first knot
Feb 3 It’s all in how you carry it
Feb 1 POV you’re a kid
Jan 30 If you feel okay
Jan 27 Making them gains
Jan 25 Successfully intimidating
Jan 23 A marble in my pocket
Jan 20 You too belong here
Jan 18 How to make a cake
Jan 16 How to meet neighbors
Jan 12 What’s my line
Jan 4 Where the wild things are
2022
Dec 30 Walking in winter
Dec 28 A hymn to the terror of change
Dec 27 Honesty is the price of freedom
Dec 12 Interior reckonings
Dec 2 Where to go from here
Nov 30 This is a test
Nov 28 Love is not trying to fix
Nov 27 I carry myself a little different
Nov 24 Maybe that’s the lesson
Oct 27 What feminism means to me
Oct 21 Where shame goes
Oct 20 Rules for living
Oct 18 My own worst enemy
Oct 16 Put it all on the table
Oct 15 What to do if it’s broken
Oct 14 Anything could happen
Sep 28 When it’s time to dig
Sep 26 My favorite flower
Sep 22 Attention is religion
Sep 21 The bullshit cabinet
Sep 19 The women don’t look at me anymore
Sep 7 What is good SEO?
Sep 6 Every light in the house is on
Sep 2 Knife knife knife
Sep 1 10 quotes about writing
Aug 31 3 ways social media exerts power
Aug 29 Zero-sum conversations
Aug 24 The first ingredient
Aug 22 The story of a relationship
Aug 20 Pouring the first cup of coffee
Aug 19 Going to the pool
Aug 17 Running marathons
Aug 15 21 ways to pray
Aug 10 The night we met
Aug 8 Doing the impossible
Aug 5 I really like mornings
Aug 3 Rage against the avoidance
Aug 1 Holding my own shape
Jul 29 Love is a motherf****r
Jul 22 The need for not-normal
Jul 18 Not just grateful but formidable
Jul 15 New choices appear
Jul 13 Is the wave sad?
Jul 11 Fling wide the gates
Jul 8 All or nothing deconstruction
Jul 6 End of an era
Jul 4 Pale little dumplings
Jul 1 What I pick is me
Jun 29 A dent in the universe
Jun 29 Being wild
Jun 14 The prime objective
Jun 8 Nothing is a given
Jun 6 How to pray
Feb 16 It’s not just the first step
Feb 1 Hot springs under a cool blue moon
2021
Sep 15 Motion versus action
Aug 5 Is having a plan helpful? Not always
Jun 1 What got you here keeps you here
May 26 Leaving things behind
Feb 10 Telling the truth means letting go of the outcome
Jan 21 Rereading books
Jan 12 How to accept yourself
2020
Dec 20 When it’s time to stop holding on
Aug 30 This is not the adventure I ordered
Aug 22 Listening to your intuition
Aug 18 In the desert
Jul 15 Parenting lessons
Jun 22 In the woods
Mar 11 If nobody owed you anything
Jan 17 Tools to improve your decision-making process
2019
Dec 31 19 things I learned in 2019
Dec 10 Gratitude versus ambition
Nov 5 All the strong women
Sep 2 What do we need to live
Aug 21 Is freelancing worth it?
Aug 16 Through a glass darkly
Aug 15 Singing love songs to myself
Aug 14 All of us in this moment
Aug 5 Community expands to fill the space we give it
Jul 29 5 essentials for every freelancer
Jul 27 Personal growth for broke people
Jul 26 What change feels like
Jul 24 Internal blueprints
Jul 22 Find your moments of power
Jul 15 Journey through grief without losing yourself
Jul 1 Better questions
Jun 28 This is what it takes to change your life
Jun 27 Maybe it is all a dream
Jun 25 Chronic caretaking styles
Jun 20 I want your honest answer to this question
Jun 18 4 creative principles
Jun 4 Freelancing lessons
Apr 12 Adulting for creatives
Mar 8 Points of completion
Feb 19 11 confidence-building strategies
Feb 15 Quit ignoring the abundance you have
Feb 1 How to tell the difference between the haters and the critics
Jan 20 Blessed be the unfolding
2018
Dec 24 Welcome back to the place you’ve never been
Dec 18 The merits of the mundane
Dec 7 Honor your limits
Nov 21 Cross the mountain or fill the tunnel
Oct 10 Some ideas about ideas
Oct 4 3 helpful rules for writing
Sep 14 A fierce and unrelenting joy
Sep 4 Your story is your reality
Jul 28 Don’t waste your precious energy
Jun 5 The year of coming undone
May 18 How to be a writer
May 5 Sometimes there are messages we don’t want to hear
Apr 30 How to write about yourself
Apr 27 We don’t always have electricity, but we accept bitcoin
Apr 25 When a hurricane destroys your farm, you open a restaurant
Apr 21 Query versus pitch
Mar 8 Ripening
Mar 6 8 exercises to let go of what doesn’t serve you
Mar 4 My relationship with writing (Not to brag, but it’s getting pretty serious)
Feb 27 On letting go
Jan 25 We are the drama llamas
Jan 15 How to get to your next life
Jan 13 The 9 stages of writing a thing
Jan 11 Where you need to be
Jan 5 Things that are good for you
2017
Dec 31 The inexplicable beauty of humanity! Or, 17 things I learned about people in 2017
Dec 30 What work really is, or 17 things I learned about productivity in 2017
Dec 15 You are bigger than the picture you’re in
Dec 3 28 important reminders to myself or someone like me
Dec 2 After two months without, we have electricity
Dec 2 What is this daily small miracle
Nov 20 With giving of thanks (and fixing of generators)
Nov 11 Water, glorious water
Nov 8 Things I don’t miss, things I do
Oct 23 Puerto Rico se levanta
Oct 13 Alive together after hurricane María
Aug 1 In the beginning
Jul 15 Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about using a 6-box to-do list
Jun 27 Today is your day
Jun 26 Process
Jun 21 The problem with outcomes
Jun 14 Action
Jun 8 Some things to know about fear
Jun 1 Quit adding more junk to the pile
May 26 The in-between tools of writing
May 20 Quit saying should
May 13 Systems and change
May 6 Some guidelines
May 3 Commitment
Apr 30 Clarity
Apr 27 Batch processing
Apr 23 Brain dump
Apr 20 When you feel ragey
Apr 15 Balance
Apr 12 More about simple rules
Apr 11 Simple rules
Apr 10 Simple rules > complex systems
Apr 9 Attention
Apr 5 To be someone who meets needs
Apr 2 How to start your week right
Mar 29 Percolate
Mar 27 Neutral items on your inventory
Mar 24 Taking inventory (inputs and outputs)
Mar 22 Expanding and contracting
Mar 17 Prime yourself on purpose
Mar 14 Make a better plan
Mar 13 The price of action
Mar 8 When kindness is a weapon
Mar 6 The baseline is respect
Mar 4 You are not broken
Mar 3 The real reason you are afraid to begin
Mar 1 50 ways to stay confused and afraid
Feb 26 When you’re standing at the edge of normal
2016
Dec 27 Start assuming the best
Dec 1 Alternate narratives
Nov 25 We’re all children
Nov 24 Gifts from the dead
Nov 11 Clutter
Nov 1 Some things to remember
Oct 27 Experiential assumptions
Oct 23 How we filter the world
Oct 5 Sing your little songs
May 17 Anger lesson #2
May 15 Anger lesson #1
Apr 21 Small version first
Mar 14 Acceptance versus approval
2015
Nov 12 The 6-box to do list
Oct 3 Saying no for better work
Sep 20 Keep the end in mind
Sep 17 Weekly planning time
Sep 12 Joy is not an extra
Aug 4 An interesting experiment
Jul 24 Doing your job
Jun 21 The problem with being a hero
May 15 Parenting thoughts
Apr 15 Rules of genuine authority
Feb 23 Everybody will help you find excuses
Jan 30 How to ask for help
Jan 23 Good sandwich, bad sandwich
Jan 3 For the love of god, please quit writing open letters
2014
Dec 17 How to stay in a creative rut
Dec 13 Ways to say No
Oct 25 Simple systems