Slingshot Designs
Writing
Essays, field notes, and applied observations about how people orient under pressure, notice what systems are doing, recover agency, and decide what happens next.
This is a working library, not a niche blog. The throughline is orientation: people, systems, relationships, work, place, recovery, creativity, and the practical consequences of what we notice—or fail to notice. The communities and disciplines beside this work are treated as neighbors and collaborators, not territory to occupy.
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Leadership & Systems
Decision-making, communication, operations, complexity, accountability, and the structures that shape behavior.
Family & Community
Belonging, relationships, local systems, stewardship, and what it takes to remain human when the system is under load.
Steel Toes & Plaid
Manufacturing, work, women, grit, field lessons, blunt truth, and practical rebuilding.
Cardinal Chronicles
Personal essays and narrative observation where memory, place, relationships, identity, and meaning intersect.
Recovery & Repair
Survival easing, grief, repair, capacity, and the work of rebuilding without turning lived experience into a diagnosis or doctrine.
Land, Seasons & Observation
Gardens, land, seasonal work, and the lessons that appear when attention gets quieter and more precise.
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Latest writing
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Reputation Is a Quality Process
A damaged reputation is not repaired by explanation alone. Like any unstable process, trust returns through containment, correction, observable evidence, time, and verification.
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A Note About Where My Writing Is Going
My writing is becoming more personal. A new podcast conversation offers a glimpse of where my work is going—and who I’m writing for.
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Dancing with My Shadow
A poem about betrayal, the seeds of doubt, and the light inside a person that no one else can claim.
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The Daisy Chain
A poem for the woman hearing her own life in a voice she does not recognize—and for anyone holding a piece of another woman’s story.
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All That Comes Next
A deliberate step forward into speaking, storytelling, and human flourishing—with freedom within a framework and respect for the life that brought me here.
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When the Breach Is Inside the Team
Containment is not condemnation. When a trusted person or core team member may be part of the breach, the response system has to change before the investigation can be trusted.
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Little Miss First Name Basis
On my first day in manufacturing, I was scolded for using the name the CEO had offered. Workplace culture was already teaching—before the tour was over.
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Do One Thing
Gridlock can make it feel as though nothing is moving. Begin with the current state, notice what is already happening, and do one meaningful thing.
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How Many Times Did You Call Me?
Before trusting a conclusion, inspect the information system that produced it. Direct contact, source quality, transmission, and inference all matter.
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When You Recognize the Pattern in Your Own Life
When behavioral patterns you understand professionally show up inside your own life, diagnosis is not the first task. Observation, investigation, boundaries, and agency are.
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When Growth Changes the System
Growth rarely happens in isolation. When one part of a relationship, team, family, or organization changes, the surrounding system has to reorganize around a new reality.
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When the Ground Moves
I spent years adapting to a world I did not fit into without understanding how much of that effort was rooted in compromised equilibrium. Vestibular migraine gave me a new lens for balance, reputation, grief, and…
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What We Grow From What We Refuse to Waste
What compost taught me about systems, repair, marriage, and the quiet wins that tell us a life has changed: growth begins when we stop exporting every difficult thing and learn to process what can still become useful.
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What They Hate in You Is Missing in Them. Maybe.
Jealousy may explain someone’s reaction. So might fear, resentment, misunderstanding, status threat, or something else entirely. The Cardinal Rule starts with behavior before motive.
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When Another Person’s Story Stirs Your Own
Another person’s story can stir grief, memory, fear or longing without making them responsible for what it activated. A reflection and four-step practice for holding compassion and boundaries at the same time.