Find FLOE

Joined June 2021

61 stories

Bio

FLOE: Freedom through Leadership, Organization, and Engagement. This is my neurodivergent journey, my heart poured out into stories, essays, and poetry.

Achievements (2)

Stories (61)

Filter by community

Sort by (Optional)

Genius Accident
I know we would have been married before New Year’s except you wanted to ask my dad in person so we waited. Set the date
By Find FLOE11 months ago in Poets
Who knew?
June 2015 When he introduced himself as a game designer I pictured video game coding Even as I began to understand he meant physical, tabletop board games
By Find FLOE12 months ago in Photography
My New Way to Network in 2025
On the flight home from Las Vegas my mind was swirling from the conference I’d just attended. It wasn’t just being inspired by the speakers and learning from the workshops, all the people I’d met had me buzzing with ideas.
By Find FLOE12 months ago in Motivation
Diary of an Ex-caterpillar
Day One This is my chrysalis. My place for twenty-one days of unraveling, coming apart, becoming liquid. My place for radical trust; like a caterpillar who doesn’t even get to retain her brain I cannot direct this process. I am letting go, not just what is in my hands, but even things I cannot grasp.
By Find FLOE12 months ago in Chapters
No, I’m Not Gonna Stop. Runner-Up in The Soundtrack of Your Year Challenge.
For the first week at our new place the sound of the fountain around the bend echoing off our porch ceiling always made me think it was raining when I stepped outside. Rattling leaves, rumbling highway... so many new sounds to get accustomed to in a new place.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Beat
Journaling ≠ “Dear Diary...”
In 2024 I was incredibly inconsistent when it came to journaling—but at least I didn’t consistently neglect it like some years!
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Motivation
The Optimism of a Donkey
This year was a shit show. I don’t want to rewrite it as a year of magical moments. Realizing that made me realize why I’ve been resisting writing a year-end reflection.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Motivation
Christmas in The Cage
The wan dusk betrays me. Some fated ray that had fought its way down to the floor of The Cage, wriggling and cutting its way down into the shadows of the twelve crime-riddled skyscrapers lit enough of my profile to reveal who I was. I silently curse that light as he speaks, the glowing coal of his cigarette bouncing as his lips moved:
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Families
Why I Broke Up With My Bullet Journal
The first month I used a bullet journal was the first month I truly felt like I could translate the clutter in my brain into words and put them onto paper without spending an entire afternoon doing it.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Motivation
I Want an Outside Perspective. Top Story - December 2024.
Introspection comes so naturally and overthinking is so familiar that I can get stuck mentally spinning all too easily, looking at my own thoughts from every possible perspective. Surely after thinking on something the way I’m in the habit of doing I can trust I have an accurate picture of the thing.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Chapters
The White Elephant in the Room
Some people had Christmas, she had new moons. As a child she’d pouted after winter break, hearing of piles of presents under decorated trees,
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Poets
What Do I Even Want?
I’ve never quite been sure how to make a house a home. There are countless houses I admire, a few aesthetics I find particularly pleasing, but no single style I can hang my hat on.
By Find FLOEabout a year ago in Chapters

Find FLOE

Bio

Achievements .css-1svwz57-Text{display:inline-block;color:var(--text-default-mute);}(2)

Stories (61)

Filter by community

Genius Accident

Who knew?

My New Way to Network in 2025

Diary of an Ex-caterpillar

No, I’m Not Gonna Stop. Runner-Up in The Soundtrack of Your Year Challenge.

Journaling ≠ “Dear Diary...”

The Optimism of a Donkey

Christmas in The Cage

Why I Broke Up With My Bullet Journal

I Want an Outside Perspective. Top Story - December 2024.

The White Elephant in the Room

What Do I Even Want?

Achievements (2)