- 2026
- A bundle of bones // W24 + 25 — 2026
- Do not bargain to be loved
- This is it
- A solid tradition // Week 23 — 2026
- Adorable tiny skulls // Week 22 — 2026
- Oh to be a snail feasting on a sycamore // Week 21 — 2026
- It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese // Week 20 — 2026
- It’s a lot to process
- GOOSE IT UP
- When (not) to break rules
- Contentment is a spectrum, too
- This one goes out to the ones we love
- Feeling something is okay I guess
- To be defeated by ever greater things
- 2025
- To sigh a deep sigh of releasing
- Do you want to read a detailed post about eyelid surgery? Here it is. With photos.
- Telling myself stories
- Gratitude knows that there is always a gift
- All feelings mean something but it might be something dumb
- Dishonesty is a rejection of life
- Fish bowl
- My new business + tech podcast
- Outside sad is better than inside sad
- Who’s in charge here anyway
- Duck duck duck dichotomy
- Love letters 11-13
- Make rules, break rules
- Reading notes: August, September
- Two small UI things that might not bother me if I were a completely different person
- Shelter or prison
- Why do I love my Pika guestbook so fucking much? Let’s discuss.
- Encourage purposeful friction
- Ritualize anything
- Quit being support staff
- Navigating the Obvious Shoulds
- Small Web July recap
- Reading notes: May, June, July
- Let there be lapses
- Hey, I care about you, but I do not care what the robot says about you
- Setting up an iPad for blog reading and small web browsing
- Small webbing along
- This is not the greatest cat in the world; this is just a tribute
- Week notes: Road trip edition
- The inevitable result of what we do today
- Small Web July
- A few big choices
- Dead happy
- 44
- Exploring and diving
- How I have benefited from racism
- Spam mail from the universe
- Things Jesus taught
- When you can’t decide
- These are my kids
- Reading notes: April 2025
- A neutral stance is for weightlifting, not for human rights
- Before the next beginning
- People can change
- Every small thing you do actually matters
- Seems like this is real simple though?
- How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
- It is the work of the writer to reclaim the language
- Do you have questions about tacos?
- Tomorrow might feel better
- Break dumb rules
- Reading notes: March 2025
- Small mercies
- How little we know of each other’s existence
- Love letters 9-10
- How to clean the bathroom
- Reading notes: February 2025
- Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced.
- Inconclusive neck region
- Urgencies are yappy little dogs
- I’m glad I was married, and I’m grateful to not be married anymore
- Blog challenge - Music edition
- If you don’t, somebody else will:
- Painting yourself into a corner
- Talk about the thing itself
- A good day for love
- A good night for old cartoons
- A good day for sandwiches
- I’m gonna keep making shit and I hope you will too
- Your personal brand makes me want to vomit
- My real-life friends don’t blog but if they did they would be good at it
- Blog question challenge 2025
- Good advice from Burkeman
- Reading notes: January 2025
- Ignore this if you are a complete success
- Build a life you can live in
- I am a cishet white woman and it is undoubtedly my voice that will save the trans community
- Fuckity fuck fuck
- Anti-narrative
- Today I am sad
- In fearful times, turn toward the light
- When you love something made by a terrible person
- I am full of schemes
- It’s okay to not know, and it’s okay to wait
- Art is the way
- False equivalencies
- What courage feels like
- What to worry about
- Do you dabble? Meander? Peruse and putter?
- Love letters 6-8
- Anticipation, experience, satisfaction
- 📋 Good advice for somebody
- Love letters 1-5
- 2024
- One bucket at a time
- Retrospective, reading
- 📱Default apps (2024)
- Joyful, joyful
- Asking too much of the fediverse
- Retrospective, financial
- I will trade you this muddy shitball for that shiny marble
- Expect obstacles
- Emotional buffer zone
- Love your body (of work)
- If you feel okay, feel okay
- Practice by doing
- Joy is in the doing
- November is over, finally
- Elements of creativity
- Several hundred things at a time
- The problem with individuality
- Burn, build, bridge
- Is it funny if I’m the only one laughing?
- You’re the only one
- Empty
- In praise of creating crap
- Start the thing
- Community building & traditions
- I keep finding great people
- Bits and pieces again
- In which poetry saves my soul
- What’s the most consequential decision you made in your life to lead you to this moment?
- What makes me vulnerable?
- Doing dumb stuff faster is still dumb
- Bits and pieces
- It sure will
- This post is not about body wash
- Fumbling for the words
- Faith doesn’t look like being brave
- Relationship circles
- How to do the RSS
- How to be confident
- The week has gone, the week is ahead
- I love your week notes and day notes and art and lists
- I have to talk about my secret hairstyle
- I wonder if I was a good wife
- Systems and change
- Dear friends and family who are thinking about voting for Trump
- I love getting older
- Just do the thing
- To walk open-eyed through the earth:
- Feeling alive is where it’s at
- A brief history of (my) blogging
- Sometimes, sadness
- Prodigy stories from ye olde Internet
- Time zones
- Spinning your wheels
- Writing is a myth
- Transitions
- Social circles and straight lines
- Moving to Pika
- Pause at the top of the slide
- The thing itself
- 12 things to avoid for better conversations
- 11 tips for better conversations
- The small Internet
- No feeling is final
- A venn diagram of dating options
- Substitutionary grief; Or why I am crying over a crushed flower, an insurance commercial, spilled milk
- All that is within me
- I am adamantly opposed to urgency
- The gift of dissatisfaction
- Just one damn thing after another
- How to be the most powerful person in the room
- We are tiny
- It’s all very serious
- It’s just a blog
- Today in the news
- Insecurity
- A few questions to ask when you’re (un)certain
- The blessing of uncertainty
- Love depends on me
- 2023
- Time for a mud-scraping session
- Dammit nature
- The kids are okay
- Self care
- Under pressure
- Rumbling at the bones
- A blessing for your day
- What we don’t know
- Optimize for delight
- Big things and tiny things
- Fuck it
- Being the dumbest person in the room
- Books are just books
- How to change
- All the things we feel
- Growing up
- Here we are, you and me
- The first knot
- It’s all in how you carry it
- POV you’re a kid
- If you feel okay
- Making them gains
- Successfully intimidating
- A marble in my pocket
- You too belong here
- How to make a cake
- How to meet neighbors
- What’s my line
- Where the wild things are
- 2022
- Walking in winter
- A hymn to the terror of change
- Honesty is the price of freedom
- Interior reckonings
- Where to go from here
- This is a test
- Love is not trying to fix
- I carry myself a little different
- Maybe that’s the lesson
- What feminism means to me
- Where shame goes
- Rules for living
- My own worst enemy
- Put it all on the table
- What to do if it’s broken
- Anything could happen
- When it’s time to dig
- My favorite flower
- Attention is religion
- The bullshit cabinet
- The women don’t look at me anymore
- What is good SEO?
- Every light in the house is on
- Knife knife knife
- 10 quotes about writing
- 3 ways social media exerts power
- Zero-sum conversations
- The first ingredient
- The story of a relationship
- Pouring the first cup of coffee
- Going to the pool
- Running marathons
- 21 ways to pray
- The night we met
- Doing the impossible
- I really like mornings
- Rage against the avoidance
- Holding my own shape
- Love is a motherf****r
- The need for not-normal
- Not just grateful but formidable
- New choices appear
- Is the wave sad?
- Fling wide the gates
- All or nothing deconstruction
- End of an era
- Pale little dumplings
- What I pick is me
- A dent in the universe
- Being wild
- The prime objective
- Nothing is a given
- How to pray
- It’s not just the first step
- Hot springs under a cool blue moon
- 2021
- Motion versus action
- Is having a plan helpful? Not always
- What got you here keeps you here
- Leaving things behind
- Telling the truth means letting go of the outcome
- Rereading books
- How to accept yourself
- 2020
- When it’s time to stop holding on
- This is not the adventure I ordered
- Listening to your intuition
- In the desert
- Parenting lessons
- In the woods
- If nobody owed you anything
- Tools to improve your decision-making process
- 2019
- 19 things I learned in 2019
- Gratitude versus ambition
- All the strong women
- What do we need to live
- Is freelancing worth it?
- Through a glass darkly
- Singing love songs to myself
- All of us in this moment
- Community expands to fill the space we give it
- 5 essentials for every freelancer
- Personal growth for broke people
- What change feels like
- Internal blueprints
- Find your moments of power
- Journey through grief without losing yourself
- Better questions
- This is what it takes to change your life
- Maybe it is all a dream
- Chronic caretaking styles
- I want your honest answer to this question
- 4 creative principles
- Freelancing lessons
- Adulting for creatives
- Points of completion
- 11 confidence-building strategies
- Quit ignoring the abundance you have
- How to tell the difference between the haters and the critics
- Blessed be the unfolding
- 2018
- Welcome back to the place you’ve never been
- The merits of the mundane
- Honor your limits
- Cross the mountain or fill the tunnel
- Some ideas about ideas
- 3 helpful rules for writing
- A fierce and unrelenting joy
- Your story is your reality
- Don’t waste your precious energy
- The year of coming undone
- How to be a writer
- Sometimes there are messages we don’t want to hear
- How to write about yourself
- We don’t always have electricity, but we accept bitcoin
- When a hurricane destroys your farm, you open a restaurant
- Query versus pitch
- Ripening
- 8 exercises to let go of what doesn’t serve you
- My relationship with writing (Not to brag, but it’s getting pretty serious)
- On letting go
- We are the drama llamas
- How to get to your next life
- The 9 stages of writing a thing
- Where you need to be
- Things that are good for you
- 2017
- The inexplicable beauty of humanity! Or, 17 things I learned about people in 2017
- What work really is, or 17 things I learned about productivity in 2017
- You are bigger than the picture you’re in
- 28 important reminders to myself or someone like me
- After two months without, we have electricity
- What is this daily small miracle
- With giving of thanks (and fixing of generators)
- Water, glorious water
- Things I don’t miss, things I do
- Puerto Rico se levanta
- Alive together after hurricane María
- In the beginning
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about using a 6-box to-do list
- Today is your day
- Process
- The problem with outcomes
- Action
- Some things to know about fear
- Quit adding more junk to the pile
- The in-between tools of writing
- Quit saying should
- Systems and change
- Some guidelines
- Commitment
- Clarity
- Batch processing
- Brain dump
- When you feel ragey
- Balance
- More about simple rules
- Simple rules
- Simple rules > complex systems
- Attention
- To be someone who meets needs
- How to start your week right
- Percolate
- Neutral items on your inventory
- Taking inventory (inputs and outputs)
- Expanding and contracting
- Prime yourself on purpose
- Make a better plan
- The price of action
- When kindness is a weapon
- The baseline is respect
- You are not broken
- The real reason you are afraid to begin
- 50 ways to stay confused and afraid
- When you’re standing at the edge of normal
- 2016
- Start assuming the best
- Alternate narratives
- We’re all children
- Gifts from the dead
- Clutter
- Some things to remember
- Experiential assumptions
- How we filter the world
- Sing your little songs
- Anger lesson #2
- Anger lesson #1
- Small version first
- Acceptance versus approval
- 2015
- The 6-box to do list
- Saying no for better work
- Keep the end in mind
- Weekly planning time
- Joy is not an extra
- An interesting experiment
- Doing your job
- The problem with being a hero
- Parenting thoughts
- Rules of genuine authority
- Everybody will help you find excuses
- How to ask for help
- Good sandwich, bad sandwich
- For the love of god, please quit writing open letters
- 2014
- How to stay in a creative rut
- Ways to say No
- Simple systems
