My 2025 Recap

My 2025 Recap

A stack of four journals used for my 2025 morning pages Yo. Here’s my 2025 recap! What I Read (Audio) Book that made me laugh and cry: Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir, by Leslie Jones. Book that I underlined and earmarked the most: Having It All: What Data Tells...
The Employee Lifecycle (and why tf it matters)

The Employee Lifecycle (and why tf it matters)

Employee Lifecycle Sketch by Yamairah Keller The Employee Lifecycle is a model that describes the entire journey of an employee at a company or organization, from their initial awareness of the company to their eventual departure from that company. Several versions of...
AuDHD at Work: How I Deal with Toxic Coworkers

AuDHD at Work: How I Deal with Toxic Coworkers

As an Autistic person with ADHD, I have strong pattern recognition and an immense amount of justice sensitivity. So, seeing the same patterns of toxicity repeat themselves at work is discouraging as fuck, to say the least. I’ve tried almost all of the advice mentioned...
Artistic Recovery: Art Club Prompts 6 and 26

Artistic Recovery: Art Club Prompts 6 and 26

I am an Artist, and The Artist’s Way helped me remember that. As part of my artistic recovery, I’m making more time for writing and drawing. One way of doing that is through art prompts. I’ve re-discovered these Art Club prompts by Lorna Scobie that I’ve had for a...
Managing Through Autistic Burnout: Leaning on Ethics

Managing Through Autistic Burnout: Leaning on Ethics

I’m trying to be more forthright about my experiences – and struggles – as an AuDHDer who is working through autistic burnout (and possibly also classical burnout). For the last several years, I’ve managed a team of people,...

Sugar, ahh, Honey, Honey

Have you seen the movie Fed Up yet? After watching it last year, I started paying attention to how much added sugars were in the foods that I eat. Last month, I tracked the amount of added and artificial sugar* I consumed during an average workweek (Monday – Friday)...

Quality Check: One, Two… What is this?

I’m pretty good at finding grammatical errors. I’m not, like, a TOTAL Grammar Nazi. I don’t get hung up on syntax, semantics, fragmented sentences, fused sentences, dangling modifiers, or (most) comma errors. But spelling errors, incorrect capitalization/failure to...

Icons Help Win Website Award

Remember the Iconathon event I talked about a while back? The final icon set, developed from the symbols created during the workshop, can be seen in the image above. Many of the icons from this set were used in the new Health Care Policy and Financing website. I was...

DIY Dog Toy

Here’s a dog toy I put together today based on this post I found on Pinterest. Easy-peasy way to use up fabric scraps… and Worf loves it!   Got any DIY dog toy ideas? How are you using old fabric scraps? Let me know in the comments below!...

Recipe Hack: Frozen Yogurt-Covered Fruit Kabobs

At our house, we’re trying to substitute guilty snacks with healthier options, so last night I tried a variation on the following recipe (found via Pinterest): http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/04/frozen-yogurt-covered-blueberry-kabobs.html#more-1852  Here are...