Updated “About” Intro (2026):

The introduction written below encompassed different life stages for KitKat and myself. I, Stormy, was in my 40s, with two kids in college and one in her senior year of high school. I was working a demanding job, a husband with a disability and two aging parents. KitKat had elementary school age kids, a demanding job and was doing her best to juggle family, kids’ sports and extracurricular activities, work and friend. In the intervening years, we’ve lost parents (both of mine and KitKat’s dad), kids have flown the nest (although sometimes not completely) and jobs. Today, I’m a retired caregiver to my husband, whose Parkinson’s has now advanced to include dementia. KitKat’s youngest just graduated from high school and she’s contemplating what the future holds in terms of her job (working in the volatile field of AI), as well as what her home life will look like with “an empty nest.”

Along the way, we’ve been horrified by the change in our country that started around 2016. The constant negativity and assault on basic human rights made it difficult for us to write about comparatively superficial topics, and writing about the serious topics was an exercise in frustration… so we mostly stopped. However, I’ve finally decided that I’m not going to let The Orange Menace steal any more of my joy. I’ve wasted the last decade trying to cope with his chaos, and I simply don’t have enough time left on this planet to give any additional energy or brainpower to someone who has dedicated his life to destroying others.

To summarize: We’re simply not the same people we were in 2013 when I wrote the intro below. But I’m guessing neither are you. If this next chapter is relevant to you, I invite you to follow along, because my intention is for us to start writing more again. (But “shhhhh,” I haven’t told KitKat yet.)

Original “About” Intro (2013):

Easier Said Than Done is dedicated to all the women caught “in-between.” We’re driven, assertive and had our lives planned out: Degree, Career, Marriage, Family… Then one day, we woke up—had all those things—and went, “WTF? What now?”

Here we will try to articulate some of our personal challenges with achieving the difficult balance between “optimizing” our lives and appreciating all we have.

What’s with those names?

When KitKat and I were framing up this blog, we agreed that we wanted to be transparent with our thoughts and feelings, but we wanted to sensitive to our spouses, kids and employers, so names were changed to protect the guilty.

Now, settling on just the right names was a bit more of a process. We wanted something “name-like” but not a straight-up alias or variation of our real names. Personally, I considered wine varietals, musical terms, meaningful words in Latin or French, etc.–but what did we ultimately settle on? Stripper names. Now if that doesn’t imply fun authors, nothing does!