Alternate title: I'm just a girl, standing in front of her work, asking you to be more neurodivergent-friendly. As I have been learning about my own neurodivergence (with both autism and ADHD), I have been slowly but surely peeling back all the things that I have done to make it in a world that is [...]
Note: "Becoming" in the title here does not refer to the fact that I suddenly "became" autistic - if you're autistic, you've been that way since birth. But in this case, realizing it late in life, I feel that I'm truly becoming my best self knowing about my autism. A little over a year ago, [...]
I have a confession: I actually like waiting. Not all waiting, this is true. For instance, I do not like to wait when I have ordered new clothes, and the package is taking forever to arrive. Or when I'm interviewing for that perfect job (like my current gig), but it takes them several weeks to call [...]
It’s been a thousand years since this pandemic started. It has often seemed like if something can be harder, it will be. Being a parent during these trying times has been no exception to that. Even as lucky as I am – with a teenager instead of a toddler, a job that allows me to [...]
When I was a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed the thrill and excitement of riding roller coasters. My particular favorite was the Orient Express at Worlds of Fun (pictured with this post). This roller coaster had lots of loops and hills, but the best part was the very beginning. The cars would leave the ride entrance [...]
I was in a Zoom meeting this afternoon (are there any other kinds these days?), and when asked how I was really doing, I found myself babbling for a minute and then suddenly spitting out, "Honestly? I'm scared." When I heard myself saying that, I realized how many different ways I'd been trying to say it over [...]
I can honestly say that I've heard the word "unprecedented" more times in the past week than I have in my entire life, and I get it. But this also means that as leaders and supervisors, we're being asked to deal with brand new challenges - especially in higher education. While there's a whole other [...]
Last fall, I started a new (interim) job. Although I would be working with a creative team, I found the job to be more talking, less doing. Despite my desire to create, I found myself struggling to find the energy after a day of meetings upon meetings to much more than consume - through either [...]
Several years ago, a TED Talk by Brené Brown started becoming all the rage in the world of business and higher education leadership, and since then, I've seen more than a few people in upper administration at various institutions reference it and the need to be more vulnerable at work. I have to say that [...]
The other day, I listened to Brené Brown talk about belonging on a podcast, and it has resonated with me at this particular time in my life. According to her, in order to truly belong, we must be okay with being alone. If we do not fear being alone, we can bring our full selves [...]
