I am a Mommy and Nanna, first and foremost.
I am Geek, a Ghost Writer and a Community Manager in my paid work life. I also volunteer at GeeksToGo, where I am a teacher in the free malware removal school and writer for the blog. Due to this work, I have been recognized by Microsoft for the past four years as an MVP in Windows Security.
I have an amazing fiance who owns my heart and soul, two awesome daughters, and the two most perfect princess granddaughters you will ever lay eyes on.
All in all, life is pretty dang good.
I am a tech writer. I write all day – every day – about technology. Today, for the first time, I honestly wish I didn’t do what I do. I am honestly so tired of having to come up with unbiased articles about the iPad. I am not impressed with the device in the least, [...]
I am likely the most selfish person on the face of this Earth right now. I have had my head up my ass today, apparently. As I went about my work and my life, I heard bits and pieces of news about an Earthquake in Haiti. The reality of the situation stayed just outside of [...]
Tonight has been a very emotional night for me. I have recently connected with many old friends from high school via Facebook. Most of these people were good friends for so many years. Sadly, we lost touch and went separate ways prior to graduation. You see, I became pregnant with my oldest daughter during my [...]
A longer version of this was sent to me in an email just now. I couldn’t help but laugh as I read it. How true most of it is! I am not that old, but there are so many differences in the World now, eh? It’s astounding to think back to my childhood in the [...]
I’ve written before about the scars that I still carry from my abusive marriage, both visible and internal. There are faint scars on my thighs, where he cut me. There is one on my arm, where he cut me. There are any number of small scars all over my body, due to things he did [...]
My good friend Drew decided to send out a tweet a little while ago, telling people they should follow me, as well. My other buddy, Mark Horvath retweeted Drew’s original just seconds later. What followed was me watching my email explode with new followers. At first, I giggled, and thought how fun it would be [...]
My 20-year old daughter called me earlier to complain about her day. She’s a Mommy to the two most adorable and awesome little girls you’ll ever see (not that I’m biased in the least!!). Jenna is 2 1/2, and MyKenzie is going to turn one next week. They are a handful, to say the least. [...]
I use TweetDeck to help me keep track of what’s going on on Twitter. I allow notifications to pop up onto the upper-right corner of my desktop. This way, I can quickly look up while working to see if anything important is going on, or to catch any direct messages coming my way. It’s not [...]
My mouth hit the floor – and stayed there – as I read this story earlier. The frazzled single mother woke up in the middle of the night last Saturday to find her 14-year old son still up and playing Grand Theft Auto. The child argued with his mom when she unplugged the game console, [...]
Last night, I had an interesting phone conversation with my friend Mark Horvath. We were talking a bit about his work with homeless people, and how he is telling their stories. He then asked how I am doing, as he knows I’ve been struggling financially for a few months. I sighed deeply, not sure how [...]
