It’s been a minute since I’ve written anything here, but looking back on the past year feels like the perfect way to start again. 2025 was the year I finally slowed down enough to look closely at where my time was actually going. I started tracking my days—not out of
Embracing Limitations: Finding Strength and Purpose in Hard Times For four years, I was honored to receive the MVP award for my work in the tech community. This award recognized my dedication and expertise, but this past year was very hard for me because of my health. Through these challenges,
I’m excited to be presenting at PASS Summit 2023, not only because it is PASS Summit but because of the topic. I do a lot of reading on productivity. Please don’t ask me how many books I own or blogs and newsletters I am subscribed to. But if you need
Twenty years ago, I stood in a courtroom and took an oath for a volunteer job I had no idea I would fall so much in love with or do for 20 years. I was sworn in as North Carolina Guardian ad Litem and was handed my first case with
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take my openness to the subject. I was pleasantly surprised that in the three-plus years so far I’ve only had one person say bad things to
EightKB is a wonderfully ran conference by my friends Mark Wilkinson (T | B), Anthony Nocentino (T | B), Andrew Pruski (T | B), and Marsha Pierce (T | B). They have rich, deep-dive content for every event and it is well attended. One problem they have though is getting
Trigger warning: suicidal ideation, depression, bipolar, mania If you would prefer to stick to all the positives skip to the numbered list at the bottom. I started the year as I did well the last 10 years oh so with my life plan up to date and goals all set.
So, we made it through our first 90 days, things start getting tougher now as now we really got to start looking at getting projects set up to get major things done. I believe that is what the six-month plan should entail besides solidifying relationships with other departments, professional development,
This month the fine folks behind New Stars of Data and the DataGrillen Newcomer Track bring us the Tell Your Story blog party. Where we are asked to tell one of the following: What got you into speaking? What was your first speaking experience like? How could it have been
Back in 2018, wow four years ago, I presented at all five stops of Data Relay and rode the bus. For those that don’t know Data Relay is a conference in the UK that goes between five cities in five days. They take bus for the speakers between cities. The