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Who Moved My Cheese?
When My 7% Smaller Pre-Frontal Lobe Rears Its Ugly Head (and I Wonder: Does the Pre-Frontal Lobe's Ugly Head Also Have a Brain with a 7% Smaller…
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The Fridge of the Future vs. ADHD Object Permanence Disorder
Combating Outta Sight, Outta Mind Syndrome
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July 2024

My Worst ADHD Motherhood Mistake
Since Mother’s Day is safely in the rearview mirror, my own motherhood report card is top of mind for me.
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April 2024

This Is Going to Sound Like a Super-Weird Question, But...
This was an actual conversation I had one time.
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March 2024

ADHD Solutions on a Saturday for Choosing Your Spouse and Improving Public Safety
I was thinking this morning about how to write the introduction to my book, SIMPLIFY: One ADHDer’s Bold Plan to End the ADHD Tax and Reduce Societal…
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My Podcast Interview This Week
When I’m not ADHDin’ all over the place, I’m prized for my consulting and dispensing creative advice to help people.
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🙊🙉🙊 Can We Talk For A Moment About...Work Poop Anxiety? 💩
When I worked corporate, my best guy friend — whom I’ll call Justin Bieber to protect his anonymity — had some candid conversations with me.
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February 2024

A Modest Proposal: My ADHD Solution for Banks
Today’s episode is THE GREAT SAFE DEPOSIT BOX CAPER. The gentleman pictured below was breaking open my safe deposit box this morning, because I lost the…
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ADHD Parenting Be Like...Masking Normalcy, Like, Tenfold
I’ll never know if my son Jack is inherently clever, or if his upbringing triggered it.
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ADHD Be Like...Chasin' that Dopamine Dragon
Yesterday, I read a LinkedIn post from someone in the UK who is on the struggle bus without her ADHD meds.
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January 2024

Has Anyone Seen the Patron Saint of Lost Passwords?
At 2 a.m., I was lying in bed, snuggled beneath my weighted blanket,* Googling whether people’s nipples have unique prints.
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What Happens When Denise Gets Bored...?
Overwhelm happens.
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