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  • Stitch & Loop: Getting WIPs out of the graveyard (without guilt)

    Stitch & Loop: Getting WIPs out of the graveyard (without guilt)

    Confession: I have a WIP graveyard. It’s not a cute one either — it’s bags of half-finished crochet shoved under the back bed, each one containing a project I swore I’d come back to. The problem was never the crochet. It was the missing context: the hook size I didn’t write down, the yarn label…

  • My 30s: A love letter to the soft chaos

    My 30s: A love letter to the soft chaos

    A few days ago I turned 40. I thought I’d write this straight away, a neat little reflection and a tidy bow on another decade. Instead, I’ve been poorly, moving slowly, and letting the days blur into each other. Which, honestly, is a pretty accurate summary of my 30s: not tidy, not linear, not always…

  • A Gentle Start: My 2026 goals (and the planner setup keeping me sane)

    A Gentle Start: My 2026 goals (and the planner setup keeping me sane)

    I always want January to feel like a clean slate. In reality, it often feels like I’m supposed to chase a bunch of unrealistic goals someone else picked – goals that don’t match how my brain works or what I actually enjoy. While also remembering to drink eight glasses of water and become the kind…

  • Naming it didn’t fix it, but it changed everything

    Naming it didn’t fix it, but it changed everything

    I think there’s a quiet myth about diagnosis. The one where you finally get the label, and someone hands you a neat little guidebook with tabs and diagrams and a helpful page titled “So here’s how to be a person, actually.” Spoiler: no one hands you the guidebook. What you get is a name. And…

  • So… It’s ADHD.

    So… It’s ADHD.

    Before I talk about the diagnosis itself, it feels important to say this: I didn’t just wake up one morning, decide “maybe it’s ADHD” and immediately get an answer. This is my adult ADHD diagnosis story, and it did not arrive quickly or neatly. Getting here was a slow, slightly tangled journey – more like…

  • How to set goals that actually work (and feel good doing it)

    How to set goals that actually work (and feel good doing it)

    Goal setting isn’t supposed to feel like detention or the place where New Year’s resolutions go to die. At its best, it’s just you deciding where your energy goes on purpose, instead of letting it leak into 400 half-open tabs and three abandoned hobby projects. The catch? “Have big dreams” isn’t a plan. Lovely, yes.…

  • Tend the Embers: My Gentle New Year Reset for 2026

    Tend the Embers: My Gentle New Year Reset for 2026

    From July’s “burn the checklist” to January’s soft glow. At midyear, I let old goals crumble and rewrote the brief. That spark did its job. Now, on the edge of 2026, I’m not chasing a bigger fire, I’m tending the embers: steady warmth over bright blaze. Less proving, more living. Fewer ladders, more roots. Here’s…

  • The Dual Compass: How I’m planning my year with two Hobonichi Weeks

    The Dual Compass: How I’m planning my year with two Hobonichi Weeks

    For years, I tried to make one notebook do everything — plan, record, reflect, dream. It always ended the same way: cluttered pages and a sense of guilt and overwhelm when I couldn’t get them to work. It always felt too messy for a planner, too structured for a journal. After moving into my weeks…

  • Gardening with Meta Smart Glasses

    Gardening with Meta Smart Glasses

    Some garden jobs are boring. Meta’s open-ear glasses make them softer—and a bit magical. So I started wearing my Meta smart glasses, and the whole job list started to feel more productivte. I was listening to a podcast while watching things grow.