Mike Baker

I rebuilt the site this week so people meet the person before they meet the machinery. Why the writing is now called Just an Ordinary Tuesday, and what my mom taught me about the days nobody circles.

My daughter’s endometriosis diagnosis took two years. The average is four to twelve. We got lucky, and luck should not be a diagnostic pathway.

ADHD, artificial intelligence, and the quiet hours when everything in my head finally has somewhere to go.

I started with a woman in a red dress and a feeling I could not explain. Following her through three images taught me something about how I create.

What becoming a beer league goalie at midlife taught me about pressure, blame, showing up, and letting go.

A blunt, funny, practical guide to becoming easier to trust, easier to love, and safer to tell the truth to.

Recognizing patterns, telling apology from accountability, protecting safety, and building a life that does not require you to disappear.

Short chapters for overwhelming days, spiraling thoughts, and suspicious hope. It won't fix your life. It might make today easier.

Staying connected across family, leadership, healthcare, work, and disagreement, when everything is pulling the other way.

For people carrying more than they say, and still trying to love, lead, heal, repair, and stay soft.

Hope with its eyes open. Practising optimism in hard seasons without denying the pain or the work still ahead.

ADHD, leadership, creativity, and building a life that works with a loud brain instead of against it.

AI is still a human choice. A hopeful, clear-eyed argument about power, care, truth, and what we build next.

Alzheimer's, love, loss, and the work we do before goodbye. Written from inside it, not about it.

A husband's field guide to hot flashes, hormones, sex, sleep, and staying married through the weirdest part.

Leaving the church changed what I believed. It did not take my family, my conscience, or the goodness I carried with me.

Women do not need more praise from men who still keep the budget, the final decision, the protection, and the credit.

A Father's Guide to Endometriosis, Pain, and Showing Up When It Matters

Two photographs of my family taken sixteen years apart, and everything that happened in between them that I could never have planned for.

A week in Washington in rooms full of people who believe American healthcare can be worthy of the people it serves. Everyone there had a story.