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COVID Safety Shopping List

It’s hard to be one of the increasingly rare people still taking proper COVID precautions in our fifth year of the ongoing global pandemic…

Sep 20, 2024

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Sep 20, 2024

Letter to Gov. Hochul — NO MASK BAN

Sample letter text to tell Kathy Hochul not to ban masks in New York State, taken from the actual letter I submitted.

Mar 20

Mar 20

Comparative Sudowrite Credit Usage Estimates by Model

If you’re an author and current Sudowrite subscriber or are considering subscribing to Sudowrite as a virtual writing assistant, you may be…

Jan 24, 2024

Title graphic that reads: Karistina Lafae | Sudowrite Series. Comparative Credit Usage on Sudowrite, Sudowrite Credit Usage Estimates by Model (updated periodically) — Best Value? karistinalafae.medium.com

Jan 24, 2024

Easy Bread Machine Pizza Dough Recipe

Our family enjoys Pizza Night once a week, and because of our financial hardships, we’ve stopped ordering pizza as takeout in favor of…

Dec 28, 2023

Apparent photo of pizza dough on a floured countertop in front of a bread machine. Text reads: Easy Bread Machine Pizza Dough Recipe. Image created by Karistina Lafae.

Dec 28, 2023

Understanding Autistic Meltdowns from Both Sides

This piece originated as a response to a friend struggling with her son’s rejection during a morning meltdown. As an autistic mom to an…

Dec 6, 2023

Digital illustration of a woman with long hair screming underwater, a symbolic representation of what having an autistic meltdown can feel like. Image created by Karistina Lafae.

Dec 6, 2023

Planning & Plotting: AI Writing Assistants for Non-Writing Activities

In a perfect* world, fiction writers and authors would be fairly compensated for their time and effort spent working for others and…

Nov 11, 2023

Nov 11, 2023

Is ChatGPT Stealing from Authors?

As a writer who has published literally millions of words online both personally and professionally, it’s practically guaranteed that at…

Sep 25, 2023

Digital image of a man sitting at a computer desk surrounded by a city strewn with piles and piles of books and papers, symbolic of a person using ChatGPT. Image created by Karistina Lafae using Midjourney.

Sep 25, 2023

How to Have Compassion for Addicts

Let’s start by saying that labeling people as “addicts” is problematic. It blames individuals for the choices they were limited to due to…

Sep 22, 2023

How to Have Compassion for Addicts

Sep 22, 2023

Thank you for your response.

I'm still waiting for the results of my COVID test, and it's Thursday night. The results are supposed to get texted to me. I'll have to…

Sep 21, 2023

Sep 21, 2023

Letter to My Surgical Team: Please Don’t Kill Me

For all of my breast reduction care team at Samaritan Hospital on Sept. 11, 2023:

Sep 9, 2023

Close-up of a woman wearing a baggy surgical mask that does not prevent transmission of airborne viruses. Image created by Karistina Lafae using Midjourney.

Sep 9, 2023

Karistina Lafae

Karistina Lafae

she/her

Queer Disabled Immunocompromised Author | Assistive Tech Advocate | Opinions are my own | Chaotic Good Bisexual Polyamorous Faerie Godmother

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