by Katie | Jan 25, 2022 | Disability, Life is Long
:: The best jobs give their workers agency, and those workers tend to be happy They get to be creative, and come up with neat ideas, and execute those ideas. Whereas jobs where workers do not have agency tend to have workers who burn out.
by Katie | Aug 26, 2021 | Disability, Sports
:: This used to be an essay about grief, and anxiety disorder, and how we react when the whirl of events overwhelms us. Now it is also an essay about death and loss.
by Katie | Aug 6, 2021 | Disability, Freelance Academic
:: As we return to teaching this fall and the pandemic rages on, I want to share three things I’ve learned about teaching with empathy during Covid.
by Katie | Sep 13, 2020 | Disability, Parenting, Writing and Publishing
:: You can choose to write nothing about your kids, which is a fine choice, or you can write about your kids with utter kindness, respect, and gratitude. And even then, you must be careful.
by Katie | Sep 13, 2020 | Disability, Parenting
:: Part of changing the world means that my kids do not have to yield their privacy for other people’s comfort.
by Katie | Aug 21, 2020 | Disability, Sports
:: Depression, too, can be a symptom of a concussion, but I don’t think that’s what this is, this wily creature slipping in through the cracks that have opened in me, cracks created by loneliness and boredom, by pain and inertia.