Sitemap - 2020 - My Sweet Dumb Brain

A quick hello 👋

For your sweet dumb brain: Unexpected gifts

A slight movement of Earth

Finding the good in a no-good year

Hello from my cocoon

For your sweet dumb brain: Looking for hope

We found hope in a hopeless place

For your sweet dumb brain: Products of a broken system

Past the point of exhaustion

For your sweet dumb brain: This was preventable

Is 200,000 a lot, or a little?

For your sweet dumb brain: Permission granted

Give yourself permission

What comes after the fire

For your sweet dumb brain: Put your worries to rest

Baby showers and worry trees

For your sweet dumb brain: Zero new messages

How do we grieve when we can’t gather?

For your sweet dumb brain: Words of wisdom

Advice that I needed to hear this week

For your sweet dumb brain: The parent trap

It’s the end of the world, and I’m pregnant

For your sweet dumb brain: Addicted to success

Choosing success over happiness

For your sweet dumb brain: It’s complicated

What to expect when everything is unexpected

For your sweet dumb brain: How to take the leap

Why I write about grief

For your sweet dumb brain: Your best pandemic purchases

I’m not going anywhere

For your sweet dumb brain: Art will save us

Everything is not OK

For your sweet dumb brain: Less to plan, more to appreciate

The upside of slowing down

It’s OK to unplug

For your sweet dumb brain: A pause in programming

We should be feeling sad. Here’s how grief can guide us.

For your sweet dumb brain: Take action, take care

The never-ending grief of being Black in America

For your sweet dumb brain: Even good changes are challenging

Finally, some good news

For your sweet dumb brain: The bright side of pandemic life

The would-have-been past and should-be future

For your sweet dumb brain: Things that make grief a bit easier

How to be present for a grieving friend

For your sweet dumb brain: Role reversal

Does the Ring Theory work in a pandemic?

For your sweet dumb brain: Pandemic pets are the best pets

Nowhere to go and not much to do

For your sweet dumb brain: Short and sweet

Yes, and ...

Sitting with discomfort

You don’t have to find meaning in this

For your sweet dumb brain: One small deed a day

There’s no handbook for this

For your sweet dumb brain: Choose wisely

When less is more

For your sweet dumb brain: Small comforts

This is just the beginning

For your sweet dumb brain: Much-needed moments of joy

Control what you can

For your sweet dumb brain: Keep calm and wash your hands

How to avoid catastrophizing

For your sweet dumb brain: On the horizon

Something to look forward to

A week’s worth of grief journaling

For your sweet dumb brain: Make it a priority

I don’t have time for that

For your sweet dumb brain: Less-than-tidy love stories

But wait, there’s more!

For your sweet dumb brain: Making sense of life

The fragility of it all

For your sweet dumb brain: Coping with post-project blues

The big letdown

For your sweet dumb brain: Let’s make it a habit

So this is the new year

For your sweet dumb brain: All dogs (and cats!) go to heaven

Grieving before he's gone

For your sweet dumb brain: So fresh and so clean

2020 might be a mess, but my house isn’t