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Twenty Years After I Wrote About Emergency Management Topics, Where Do Things Stand Now?

Twenty Years After I Wrote About Emergency Management Topics, Where Do Things Stand Now?

What's a Girl Have to Do to Get Into a Graduate Program?

What's a Girl Have to Do to Get Into a Graduate Program?

How I Updated My Resume to Move Towards a Brand New Career

How I Updated My Resume to Move Towards a Brand New Career

Following the Action Steps in Navigating the Chaos

Following the Action Steps in Navigating the Chaos

Leadership, Trauma, and the Space for Connection Between Them

Leadership, Trauma, and the Space for Connection Between Them

What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

A reintroduction

A reintroduction

Five Years After My Dystopian Fiction Was Published, I’m Afraid It Might Actually Be Coming True

Five Years After My Dystopian Fiction Was Published, I’m Afraid It Might Actually Be Coming True

Finding Community and Building Solidarity for Socially Exhausted Introverts*

Finding Community and Building Solidarity for Socially Exhausted Introverts*

How to Heal When Life Feels Like the Environment That Harmed You

How to Heal When Life Feels Like the Environment That Harmed You

Asking for Help When You Don’t Conform to Social Expectations

Asking for Help When You Don’t Conform to Social Expectations

To Protect Our Children, We First Need to Heal Ourselves

To Protect Our Children, We First Need to Heal Ourselves

How American Hero Narratives Keep Us From Solving Social Crises — or Healing

How American Hero Narratives Keep Us From Solving Social Crises — or Healing

5 Things “Stranger Danger” Education Got Wrong, and 1 It Gets Right

5 Things “Stranger Danger” Education Got Wrong, and 1 It Gets Right

How Generational Trauma Compounds Child and Intimate Partner Abuse

How Generational Trauma Compounds Child and Intimate Partner Abuse

Why It’s More Critical Now Than Ever to Tell Our “Not That Bad” Abuse Stories

Why It’s More Critical Now Than Ever to Tell Our “Not That Bad” Abuse Stories

Asking for Help When Help Feels Few and Far Between

Asking for Help When Help Feels Few and Far Between

Asking for Help When You Can’t Pull Back Any Longer

Asking for Help When You Can’t Pull Back Any Longer

Reaching Out for Help When Everything Tells You to Pull Back

Reaching Out for Help When Everything Tells You to Pull Back

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Oct
24
A photograph of a rear view mirror reflecting the road and sunset scenery behind the traveling vehicle, whose windows are partially open.

Twenty Years After I Wrote About Emergency Management Topics, Where Do Things Stand Now?

The more things change, the more they've stayed the same, only maybe with more political urgency
8 min read
Oct
02
What's a Girl Have to Do to Get Into a Graduate Program?

What's a Girl Have to Do to Get Into a Graduate Program?

There's explaining why I want to get this degree. Then there's bleeding on the page.
3 min read
Sep
16
How I Updated My Resume to Move Towards a Brand New Career

How I Updated My Resume to Move Towards a Brand New Career

The way I was able to see and appreciate just how much I've accomplished over the years, and to frame it all in a way that felt the most authentic to me
3 min read
Sep
08
Following the Action Steps in Navigating the Chaos

Following the Action Steps in Navigating the Chaos

Now that I'm rebuilding my entire life from the ground up, I'm more feeling my way along than planning my steps
12 min read
Sep
06
A person wearing all black clothing lies curled in a fetal position on a wooden bench.

Leadership, Trauma, and the Space for Connection Between Them

Rarely can we admit that our carefully crafted structures may not always be the right ones for the circumstances
5 min read
Aug
25
What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

Nothing much can get done unless and until people feel safe, seen and heard before they can act effectively.
5 min read
Aug
19
The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

Trauma is arguably a part of life, but also arguably, hardship can be prevented from ever becoming trauma by loving care and compassion
5 min read
Aug
12
A reintroduction

A reintroduction

We don't talk about what happens or how to manage when the losses keep piling on
3 min read
Apr
11
A black and white image of a semi truck traveling along a highway under overcast skies alongside a mountain range. Sunlight breaks through the clouds at intervals.

Five Years After My Dystopian Fiction Was Published, I’m Afraid It Might Actually Be Coming True

What I never expected in writing to process my layoffs as well as my privilege
7 min read
Mar
11
A young white woman with dark hair lies face down on grass, her arms folded over her head.

Finding Community and Building Solidarity for Socially Exhausted Introverts*

If you're paying attention, you find the keys to all your future interactions
3 min read