Grounded



Creative writings, musings, Essays, Poems, Blog posts, Short stories, & Other things

  • What It Actually Costs to Care for Someone You Love

    The question nobody asks family caregivers If you ask someone what a nurse’s job is worth, they can tell you. Ask what a home health aide earns per hour, and there’s a number for that too. But ask what it’s worth when a daughter manages her mother’s medications, drives her to three specialists a month,…

  • Who Is Sela For? Why a Caregiving App Isn’t Just for Caregivers

    Sela isn’t just for caregivers. See how this caregiving app tracks medications, appointments, and pain differently than health apps like Samsung Health.

  • Why Family Caregivers Don’t Use Caregiving Apps (Even When They Need Them)

    Why don’t family caregivers use caregiving apps, even when they need them? A caregiver and founder on the real adoption barrier: capacity, trust, and the challenge of switching systems.

  • Lessons from Building a Caregiving App from Scratch

    Solo founder and PM-turned-builder Romneka Guion on two weeks of heads-down building, bootstrapping without funding, and the gap between knowing something in your gut and being able to prove it.

  • You’ve Been Paying Attention. So Why Can’t You Answer?

    You’ve been there for every hard night, every medication change, every moment when the pain was a lot and there was nothing to do except show up. And when the doctor asks how she’s been, what comes out is “she’s been okay. Last week was hard.” That moment is not a memory problem. It’s not…

  • The Sorted Details of My Why

    (Nothing Actually Sorted About It) I’ve been talking about Sela for a while now on my socials. What it does, who it’s for, why it matters. But I realized recently that I’ve never actually told you where it came from. Not the founder version. The real version. The one that starts long before I ever…

  • Family Caregiver Burnout: The Invisible Cognitive Load Nobody Talks About

    If you track medications, refills, and doctor preferences for a loved one, you’re already doing a full-time job. Here’s why that’s exhausting — and how Sela helps.

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