K.T. Donohue

Thank The Makers, Medals for everyone, Save the Fabric

My husband fancies me a maker of things. I possess the patience of Job to put the hex bolts of an Ikea kit together in three or more tries. So, I follow his creative lead on our projects to the point where I can turn something over in my head

Half the Sky Below Me, Family Party

My family is having a party. My sister was organizing an invitation this week and looking for a photo that showed us all together simultaneously. It was a challenge because I have seven siblings, and to find a photo of us all together is a challenge, especially as adults. The

Generations Embrace the Idiosyncrasies Channel the Crock

The gap in generational experience is like speaking another language. Our TV shows about Star Trek are funny. Social rules and interpersonal relationships have been the same in that universe for hundreds of years of storylines. That's not how things work from one generational epoch to the next.

Dupped By Scales, 30 Weeks of Diet Scutiny, Mistborn Wizard

I spent a long time listening to diet advice from people on Youtube who are very clever about citing studies. They sounded knowledgeable, but I have since discovered the recommendations are based on incorrect conclusions from the cited studies. I was duly dupped by the advice and started shopping for

They are penetrating the Bureaucracy and Being present.

I recently changed insurance, which has led me on a journey to penetrate the bureaucracy. I feel like Mr. Incredible in the cartoon movie helping his client work the insurance system. Now I am a client on a fixed income, figuring out how to cover the cost of my costly

four thousand weeks, Deadloch, weeks to live

Four Thousand Weeks, Deadloch

What am I reading? I am still reading 4k Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. I am doing it on an audiobook. His voice is soothing. However, the title springs a bit of death and doom on us right out of the gate. Let me interject a quick disclaimer here. We have

Habit Hack

Brain Candy and Making the Easy Things Harder.

Make the easy things harder. I have been rereading Atomic Habits by James Clear. It is dense with valuable insights to help me live a more productive and happy life by hacking my good or bad habits. For example, I put my phone in the bedroom in the morning while

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My TMI Goal for 2023 And Fun with PICC Lines

Spoiler alert all my blogs with TMI in the title have too much information about my Crohn's illness. So don't read further if you don't want to hear about it. Make the hard things more accessible. A goal to not spend any time in

What would my everyday tasks look like if they were easy?

Once in a while, he would get an insight that he could write about and eventually do something worthy of a Nobel prize. He did not always know how a note would fit or grasp the connection immediately, but he saved it and could return to it later.

Night Cafe Art for the NonArtist Steal Like a Robot Artist

I have experimented with AI writing and AI art. The Art option I have had the best luck with is Night Cafe. It has a text-to-picture format and a picture-to-art format.

Everything is a Negotiation

This week I am reading about hostage negotiation. I almost didn't start it, but I am glad I jumped in.  It's a KT top five suggestion with practical applications you can use immediately.  I tried it out on my husband, and it worked. It borders on

Leveling Up with Power Tools Breaking The Internet Again.

I have held off buying power tools my whole life. It seemed like having power tools and the skills to use them was jumping into the deep end of DIY culture. I am happy watching DIY on Sunday mornings with my husband. We watch other people do clever projects. As

Hey, That is my Desk Idea, Travel and Be Inspired.

We rent small apartments in our building, so I have mused over clever ideas about making them more functional. One idea is Murphy beds in the studio units. We put a Murphy bed in the second bedroom of our apartment. That was a very DIY build. We bought a kit.

One Bite of Snickers the Essential Experience of Limitlessness

When I was about ten years old, my mom was in the habit of pulling out a hidden candy bar after dinner. She chopped up the Snickers bar as dessert for eight. At the time, I did not appreciate the visceral essentialism that one bite of a Snickers bar represented

911 What is Your Emergency?

I was working on a door lock and a painting project on Monday. The order I decided to tackle my tasks put me in the right place at the right time to save my neighbor's life with CPR. Tuesday I told my IV nurse what happened, and she

Notes From The Third Dynasty

I am working with my notes app this morning. On my phone, I use a Post-it note app to capture references, links, and to-do items. I discovered these notes might as well be from the walls of the Pheros crypt. Either the moment to use them has long since passed,

Lock & Key House of Hunky Jesus Pilgrimage

We went on Pilgrimage last week to San Francisco for Easter in Delores Park. On Friday, we drove up the coast and stopped at Cayucos in Morrow Bay for the night. Our hotel was right across the street from the ocean. As soon as I stepped out of the parking

The Road to Walla Walla Making Room for Something New.

There is a saying, "You don't get to the top of Mount Everest by wandering around." In my experience, I created a similar expression that you don't drive to Walla Walla by mistake. Here is my story, I once drove my mother and her

The TMI Post, The Superman Meds.

These TMI posts are only if you want to know the details of my life with Crohn's disease. I did not want my blog to be all about my illness, but It's a massive part of everything I do. I do want to witness it, but

Infusion Drugs My Untethered Soul and a diet tracking app Who R U?

Today, I am starting back on a biologic drug for my Crohn's. I peeled the details off into a separate blog post. Like the character in Lady in the Water, who spends the whole movie in the bathroom while his wife tells everyone what is going on with

A Kiss to Build a Dream on Bubble Guns

I am listening to Louis Armstrong, A kiss to build a dream on. My visiting nurse Nora is here with me. She has me hooked up to an IV for my weekly fluids boost and it is pouring rain outside. I am a loose lump of laundry on the, sofa

The TMI Post about Crohn's and Biologic drugs.

I read this and decided to shave it off my regular post. Only people with IBD-related issues would want this much detail. It's not a sexy illness, and who wants to know about my poop issues? I drove myself to Keck Hospital Infusion Center today. There is more

No sedation on the wild and precious pathless path

No Sedation I am at my desk the little dog is moaning at me, she wants out yet again. On my headset, I am listening to a book, the pathless path, so it's easy to get and take miss naughty paws out for a walk down the street

Not a laughing matter you can break the internet and still fix the roof with a shoelace.

So, I struggle to link my domain name with my blog post. I keep putting it off and don't want to watch another how-to video. I think it's a man thing along the same lines as not asking for driving directions when I get lost. When

Written by AI - Writing instructions in AI

Connect ghost.io to Google IP. My query to the AI was this: "Connecting ghost.io to a Google IP address." This is what the software spit out in less than a minute.  I was duly impressed. Connecting a ghost.io site to a Google IP address would