The Blog
Why I built FunctionalMe
Recovering from my aneurysm coil forced me to face who I was without work. That crisis led me to build FunctionalMe, a tool for people whose energy and capacity aren’t predictable. This is the story of how it started.
Happy Halloween From Your Friendly Neighborhood PossHISSSSSS
It’s Halloween, my favorite time of the year and my favorite holiday. I didn’t have much in me this year though, so I’m watching movies and eating snacks while I reflect on the past month.
DV Awareness: A Brief Guide For Leaving Safely
Leaving an abusive relationship takes planning, not pressure. This guide explains how to prepare safely, find confidential help, protect your privacy, and build a strategy that keeps you and your children safe while you take your next steps.
Human Services Practitioner, Care Thyself
When your body, mind, and ethics collide, self care stops being optional. For human services practitioners, showing up means adapting around pain, fatigue, and burnout, because someone’s safety may depend on it.
New Series: Because Someone Has To, Okay?
Everyone wants to know why I walked away from a comfortable tech career to study human services. Honestly, I’m still figuring that out, but I’m using Watchmen, moral philosophy, and a little righteous indignation to try. Welcome to the series I never meant to write.
Make those peepers POP! (weird art practice)
Yesterday’s zentangle got me thinking about eyeballs and I wanted to do some practice before starting a non-doodle piece of weird art.
I dub this zentangle The Fingercramper
I decided to try my hand at a zentangle. It effed up my hand pretty bad.
A portrait of actor Andre Braugher
I decided to practice some portraiture and color layering. I started with Andre Braugher, who played Captain Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
This creepy tree and moon are full of woe
Two things happened today. I just finished binge-watching the series Wednesday on Netflix, which put me in a kind of spooky mood. And I saw a Facebook reel that made me want to practice drawing trees.
Random Generator: Glass, Lion, Spring
I’m starting this new weekly challenge for myself to get my brain juices flowing more creatively.