I read A LOT! This year I scaled back my Goodreads Reading Challenge to only 175 books. I’m more than halfway there at 91 books. I’ve been mixing it up, per usual with books both inside and outside my comfort zone. I continue to learn a lot along the way. I’ve got a few, like… Continue reading Best Books I’ve Read This Year (So Far)
Category: General
Gaining a Sense
My mother got a second cochlear implant last year and it was turned on last week. The first involved shaving a good bit of her head, much more invasive surgery. This time was much better, outpatient surgery, with a small incision. Here you can see and hear the difference between her first, 20 years ago,… Continue reading Gaining a Sense
Simple Pleasures Forgotten to Remember
I grew up making mix tapes off of the radio. As a teenager I was lucky to enjoy the technological advance of CDs. As a passionate music lover, I built a comprehensive collection of CDs of all kinds of music. I spent hours burning albums to my computer, and as iTunes and iPhone rose in… Continue reading Simple Pleasures Forgotten to Remember
Read More, Read Better 2019 edition
I am a voracious reader, and am always learning. I figure my ability to read and learn is one of my most valuable skills, so it’s one I practice. I have a lot of tricks to remember what I read, and be able to use it. These are some great ones I use – though… Continue reading Read More, Read Better 2019 edition
Recently Read: The Best Books I Read in 2018
Reading Goal for 2018: 150 Books For 2017, I participated in a reading challenge through Good Reads setting my goal at 75 books. I surpassed that goal and read 100 books last year. This year I doubled by goal to 150 books. I hit 100 books in April. I hit 230 in November. How I… Continue reading Recently Read: The Best Books I Read in 2018
The importance of time
It’s an interesting quandary. Organizations say they want to get better and see benefits from agile, but they don’t want it to cost them any time. Things worth doing rarely work that way.
100 Books for 2017
I set a personal goal of reading 50 books this year and finished double my goal. Included in my list were fiction, non-fiction, personal and work related books, as well as things I just wanted to learn more about. How I did it: I set a goal in Goodreads and tracked my progress there. Set… Continue reading 100 Books for 2017
In Gratitude
As a young, single mother of twins, I embarked on my software engineering journey really because I considered myself to be “good with computers,” and because I was searching for a way to provide for my children. I set out at the local community college to study Computer Information Systems, and Programming more specifically, thinking… Continue reading In Gratitude
I’m Just Getting Started
I’m in the process of migrating my professional information here from a variety of locations. Thanks for your patience on this journey to establish a central web presence!