I’m using working on WordPress as my excuse to write and learn. I hope to write on subjects important and interesting to me, personal or professional.

  • Why?

    My wife accuses me, rightly so, of asking this question too often. It is one thing, of many, that I do that annoys her. She asks me a question, for example, “can you please get me that bag of flour from the pantry?” My typical retort is “why?” And when I do, and her exasperation…

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  • A Community

    I did not want community this past weekend. I have been exhausted from drama of the world and across my life. I did not want community but community is what I got. This past weekend, my family and I attended a retreat for families with children who have Type 1 Diabetes. If one desired a…

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  • 525,600

    Five years since diagnosis, a moment in time replete with dark, challenging, stressful feelings but a time to see first hand just how much stronger kids can be. Me? I was a hot mess, mixed in with much needed healthy doses of stoic practicality. We needed to do the insulin injections as she cried with…

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  • My Aha! Moments When Using Local

    I’m a sucker for local development environments. Sure, the cloud is awesome. But for me, part time hacker and developer-wanna-be, playing around in a place where the only damage I can do is to my own self, I’m always drawn to getting code running locally. And now getting more immersed in the world of WordPress,…

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