Welcome to SixFootCandy
I’m Candy, a humor writer, content creator, author, and cofounder of SFC Creative. This is where I share the funny, honest, and occasionally unhinged things I write about life, relationships, anxiety, and being human. You’ll also find my books, the apps Craig and I are creating, and ways we can work together. Basically, if I wrote it, made it, laughed at it, or became emotionally invested in it, it probably lives here.
Candy Says
Candy Says is a collection of my latest articles, stories, ideas, and updates. It’s also where I share more about my books, apps, and whatever I happen to be working on next.
Anticipatory Grief and the Quiet Fear of Losing a Parent
There is a kind of grief that begins long before the loss. Most people don’t know the name for it, but they know the feeling.”
Marriage Texts, Translated.
Somewhere along the way, my husband and I stopped texting and started speaking a language only we understand. It's about 90% "where are you" and 10% "never mind, found it." For everyone else, here's the translation. "Do we need anything from the store?" = I'm already at the store and forgot why. "Can you call me?" = I can't find something, and it's your fault. "Where are you?" = I've been ready...
The Littlest Boss
The Littlest Boss — a children's picture book about an eight-pound rescue dog, a girl who understood him, and the little wins that made them both braver. Coming soon.
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Behind the Verdict: What Jurors Really Think
How Court of Public Opinion reveals not just what jurors decide, but why When a jury reaches a verdict, the decision is only part of the story. What matters just as much is how jurors got there: what evidence captured their attention, which testimony they trusted, and whether different groups of jurors reacted in different ways. Without that insight, attorneys are left making educated guesses...
My Back Goes Out More Than I Do.
Laughing through the parts of aging that no one warned us about. Aging sneaks up on you. One day, you’re pulling an all-nighter for fun, and the next, you’re pulling a hamstring tying your shoes. The signs come quietly at first: you start turning down the radio to see better, menu fonts seem to shrink every year, headlights at night feel like staring into the sun, and somehow you’re emotionally...
Two Episodes In, and Outlander: Blood of My Blood Already Has My Heart.
Photo by Bjorn Snelders on Unsplash Meeting Jamie and Claire’s parents in the Outlander prequel feels like opening a door to the past I never thought I would walk through. Two episodes into Blood of My Blood, and it already feels like slipping back into a world I’ve lived in for years, only now I’m seeing it from the other side. For years, I only knew them through...
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Would you like to donate $1 to guilt and shame? [Yes] [No]
Because nothing says “good person” like being cornered by a checkout screen. Sometimes the donation screen pops up in a place you don’t expect, buried right in the middle of the payment process, so you end up hitting “yes” without realizing it. No one else can even see that screen, but if you accidentally donate, you have to walk over to the self-checkout person and explain that you didn’t mean...
Following Through On a Boundary I Should Have Set Years Ago
I followed through on a boundary this month, and I’m actually proud of myself. It wasn’t easy. I felt guilty for not helping someone, but at some point, being taken for granted hurts more than the guilt ever could. For five years straight, I decorated someone’s house every holiday season. Not lightly. Twelve hours of climbing, lifting, bending, arranging, and basically killing myself to make...
Compassion and Choice: Watching a Loved One Find Peace.
Watching the storyline in The Pitt about the woman who wanted to die on her own terms brought back a lot of memories. There are a lot of opinions about that storyline in The Pitt with the woman who wanted to die on her own terms. But when you have actually lived something like that, it does not feel complicated. I watched someone I love be in that level of pain. There was no fixing it....
SIXFOOTCANDY CREATIVE
Craig and I combine strategy, writing, design, and development to help businesses build a stronger presence online. Together, we create social media content, write blogs, website copy, and SEO content, design graphics, build websites, and develop web apps and desktop software.
Your Writing Isn’t Bad. It’s Just Hiding. Here’s a Free Tool That Finds It.
You know the feeling. You reread an email you just sent and it sounds like a committee wrote it. Every sentence is technically correct. None of them actually say anything. Bad grammar isn't usually the problem. Small habits are: passive voice, filler words, phrases that use five words where one would do. Each one is minor. Stack enough of them in a paragraph and your point disappears....
CoPO Cited turns a medical records dump into a chronology you can check
CoPO Cited is a Mac app that simplifies the organization of personal injury records by creating a chronological summary, billing audit, and identifying treatment gaps from a single PDF input. While it automates initial data processing, it requires human verification for accuracy and does not provide legal or medical advice. The app is subscription-based.
How to Decline Without Burning Bridges
You've read the text six times. It's an invite to something you don't want to go to, or a favor you can't really do, or a group dinner that already sounds like work. So you type "maybe!" and then you vanish. And then you feel weird about it until roughly next Thursday. Somewhere along the way we lost the ability to just say no nicely. Ghosting is easier. So is the fake conflict ("ugh, I have a...