Last week, this quick conversation happened in my house:“Babe, did you send me a link on Messenger?”“Yep, go ahead.”“Cool, thanks.” There was an ease to it, because we were in the same house, just a room away from each other, my husband working on his computer and me working on mine. He doesn’t send links...
It’s been a hard week for school administrators. In Fairfax County alone, we went from giving families a choice of sending kids back to school 2 times per week or keeping them home for the year...
We have a problem today. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that asymptomatic people very rarely transmit the coronavirus, and mask-haters rejoiced. Less than a day later, they seemed to...
Late last week, a friend of mine posted to Facebook asking if there were any hair stylists out there who would be willing to coach her, for payment, through cutting her son’s hair. The responses...
Well it looks like more of us are going to be working from home, for the near and potetially farther future. As someone who has been a mostly remote worker for the last ten years, I have some thoughts...
Just about a year ago, I was working for another company–one that had managed to both stay open and pay its employees during the government shutdown of 2018. During that time, we saw many...
Not much writing really. I gave a 10 minute talk about my instructional design work to people who don’t know anything about the field. Someone was kind enough to record it, so here it is. Contact me...
We have all heard it: what you say in your social media posts reflects on you. It paints a picture...
As part of my Cybersecurity Best Practices course, I talk about kids. For example, I suggest that...
It seems everyone has their own Very Clear Opinion on telecommuting, and I am no exception. My own...
Note: this essay wanders. I’m leaving it as is, because I found I had a lot to say. I hope...
There is a slide that I use in my Cybersecurity Best Practices for PII training that causes people...
Not that it wasn’t a real thing before, but the end of last week saw me doing more...