Profiles

Writing, editing, technical writing, documenting all the things™️, research, notes and note-writing, Zettelkasten, Commonplace books, Second Brain, Advocacy (primarily for: autism, epilepsy, rare diseases, ADD, CPTSD, caregiving)

I’ve always loved playing with words. When I became a wife and mother to three pretty amazing guys with a ton of diagnoses and health problems, writing became cathartic, allowing me to grow into being a better wife and mom.

I first migrated my personal blog, Kat’s Cafe, to WordPress.com in 2008. It was initially where I vented about being mom to boys with awesomeness (my label for all the diagnoses the boys have: Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome, epilepsy, autism, low vision, cerebral palsy, and so much more). Over time, venting turned into advocacy and I wanted greater control over my site.

I ended up migrating into a WordPress.org site within a couple years and slowly started teaching myself how to make my home on the web my own.

In time, my writing won awards, my advocacy efforts joined with International campaigns and countless other voices, and I started freelancing to help other folks build their own sites. Then, I started working remotely (just over 6 years ago) and never looked back. I am a technical writer at Syde GmbH, where they also value open source projects and building community.

Finding WordPress around 15 years ago was the first step in finding my own independence. It changed my life.