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Reflections
Field notes from everyday life — gratitude, growth, and small thoughts worth slowing down for.
June 10, 2026
AI Isn't Coming for Us. Humans Are.
Every time I open social media lately, somebody is screaming that AI is going to take all our jobs, destroy civilization, and leave the rest of us fighting over canned beans in a dystopian wasteland. The thing is? I think they're half right. AI absolutely is taking some jobs. Hell, I'm an IT tech. I […]
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June 9, 2026
The Numbers Don't Lie (Even When My Brain Does)
A few months ago, if you'd asked me whether all the walking, food changes, supplements, medication adjustments, and questionable health experiments were making any difference, I probably would have shrugged and said, “Ask me again when I stop feeling like a stressed-out raccoon who accidentally drank battery acid.” Because that's the thing about health journeys. […]
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June 9, 2026
Why Is My Watch Yelling At Me?
Photo attached: my fitness watch informing me that my stress levels are apparently through the roof while I sit comfortably at my work from home job watching horror movies and reviewing technical support calls for idiocy. I mean….accuracy. The thing that makes this warning so annoying is that it almost never happens when I'm actually […]
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June 8, 2026
Fifty-Three Years Later, I'm Still Figuring Out Who I Am
June is Pride Month, which seems as good a time as any to admit something: I recently changed my pronouns to they/them. Not with a dramatic social media announcement. Not with a carefully crafted coming-out post. Not with a rainbow-themed press conference. I just… changed them. Facebook. Instagram. Slack at work. Anywhere there was a […]
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June 7, 2026
Pedaling Toward Better Numbers
Tomorrow is blood draw day. If you have familial high cholesterol, you know those appointments come with a special kind of anxiety. You can do everything right and still end up staring at lab results that make you question whether your DNA is actively trying to sabotage you. But this time feels different. For nearly […]
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June 3, 2026
I'm Going Old School: Why My Future Blog Posts Might Be Written in an Actual Journal
I know. In a world where I can talk into my phone, have it magically turn my rambling into text, then edit it on a computer while simultaneously watching fish videos and forgetting why I opened half my browser tabs, deciding to write by hand seems a little ridiculous. Yet here we are. Recently I […]
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June 1, 2026
Backyard Birding. Sort of.
I went outside with perfectly respectable intentions: capture a few lovely birds in the backyard, maybe come back inside feeling like some serene woodland lady with a camera and a deep spiritual connection to nature. That is not what happened. Instead, my backyard turned into a full-blown neighborhood production starring one opportunistic squirrel, at least […]
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May 31, 2026
The Quiet Weight of Shiny Stones
I cleaned out my biggest aquarium this week. Morrie, my cichlid who has ruled that tank like a tiny moody king, has been resettled into new accommodations — alternate arrangements, as they say in polite company when really you mean I rearranged an entire ecosystem on a Saturday. The tank that held his whole world […]
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May 5, 2026
Abbey Road, Florida Edition — A Sandhill Detour on the Way to the Preserve
I was headed to the preserve when a family of sandhill cranes turned a shopping-center entrance into the most unexpected little gem of a morning.
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April 30, 2026
Trying it: a Himalayan salt ceramic inhaler
Field notes from someone who's just doing what she can on her own, between the inhaler and the oxygen tank. If you've been following along, you already know I've been slowly putting together a little patchwork of “things I can do on my own” — the cholesterol-lowering soup, the recipes that lean greener and lighter, […]
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April 28, 2026
The Air I Didn't Know I Was Missing
Turns out the headaches that have been wrecking me aren't “just stress.” They're cluster headaches — and they're happening because my oxygen is way too low. So now I have a tank. And a fight with my insurance company. And a lot of feelings.
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Pause. Breathe. Refill the Cup.
🌿 There's a particular kind of tired that sneaks up on you when you've been pouring out for everyone but yourself. The kind that settles into your shoulders after weeks of overtime in a tough new role, after long days of holding space for the people you love, after answering every call but the quiet […]
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