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Remember the Halloween masks from the 70s?
Those hard plastic things we pulled over our faces with the elastic that fed through a little hole on each side to hold it on our faces. And nine times out of ten the elastic snapped and there you were holding your mask up with one hand while hanging on ti...
There is a weird thing that happens when you own a business.
You can be absolutely brilliant at the thing people hire you to do…
and still spend half your week buried under work that has very little to do with that brilliance.
- Emails.
- Scheduling.
- Invoices.
- Follow-up.
- Social media.
- Tech.
- F...
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from looking competent while quietly falling apart.
- You answer the email.
- You show up to the meeting.
- You remember the appointment.
- You make the dinner reservation.
- You order the birthday gift.
- You check on your parent.
- You help your kid w...
Every October, ADHD Awareness Month brings another round of conversations about what it means to have an ADHD brain. It’s amazing to see how our community plans all of September to bring mostly great content out in “our” month. It’s also breast cancer month so I get to double celebrate. On October 4...
Most of us were taught to use a calendar to answer one question:
Do I have time for this?
There’s a problem with that question.
Because having time for something and having the capacity for something are not the same thing.
You can look at your calendar and see two open hours.
That does not aut...
There is something intoxicating about starting over.
Monday.
The first of the month.
September.
January 1.
A brand-new planner with absolutely nothing crossed out, scribbled in the margins or abandoned sometime around page 47.
Just last night, we were talking about healthier eating habits. My ...
Time management greatest hits…drum roll please…
“Have you tried using a planner?”
“Just make a to-do list.”
“Why don’t you set an alarm?”
“You just need to prioritize.”
“Try getting up a little earlier.”
And my favorite (deep sarcasm because this one just makes my eye twitch):
“If it’s import...
Get Off the Runway
For a lot of ADHD women in midlife, we’re managing the air traffic for everyone else’s lives.
The kids’ planes.
The aging parents’ planes.
The work planes.
The clients’ planes.
The household planes.
All while trying to remember where the hell we parked our own plane.
And here’s th...
I'm back after an amazing 3 day weekend off. My brother and his girlfriend visited and we did all kinds of summer beach things. Heaven.
I'm all rested and on fire today, so let's get back to mending our nets before the storm. Not because something is wrong. But because someday you'll need those net...
July fourth we had an epic wind storm.
After we got home from fireworks, my husband found me dashing about our back deck battening down the hatches as I like to call it. Y’all know I’m a sailor at heart.
I was tossing back cushions into the living room, stowing away the throw pillows on the shelve...
