Eleven and a half years, and then it ended. I came home and started fixing the house.
Making a home beautiful is not a distraction from putting your life back together. It is how it gets done. That is the whole premise of this site.
Who this is for
Women who had a plan taken apart by someone else, and who are done being handled gently about it.
Soft doesn’t mean passive.
The House
- Indoor plants: what it actually takes to be a plant girlieIt started with one plant the week after the layoff. There are eleven now.
- Two heelers, and what actually gets the hair upIf you know heelers, you know the problem. A double coat means double the shedding, and it is not the… Read more: Two heelers, and what actually gets the hair up
- How I created the retro turquoise kitchenThere is something to bringing a little 1950s into the present day. When I bought this house, built in 1959,… Read more: How I created the retro turquoise kitchen
The Rebuild
- Life After a Layoff: A Practical Self-Care ChecklistA checklist for the weeks when nothing has a deadline.
- What no one tells you about being laid offThe part nobody warns you about, and the journal that came out of it.
Free workbook
The First Five Days
Five days of writing for the week after the job ends. Eight pages, printable, no advice. Tell me where to send it.