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Reflecting on ELA Conf
Ela Conf was hands down my favorite unexpected thing to happen this year. Friday evening started out with snacks and a few planned lightning talks. Joni and LeeAnn then asked the crowd how many of us had never spoken into a mic before, and a bunch of people raised their hands… and then gave their…
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Writing a Philly Bucket List
Philly has been really good to us these past few years. I’m not sure if it’s the time of year, the phase of life we’re in, or if it’s really just time to change something up. We’re entertaining thoughts of what’s next. Even if we don’t make a move anytime soon, I decided to come…
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Speaking at ELA Conf
There’s an event coming up in Philly this weekend that I’ve been excited about since I caught wind that it was an idea floating around — ELA Conf. “ELA” stands for Empowerment, Leadership, Action, and the conference’s aim is to increase the number of women leading, speaking, and teaching in the technology space. Back when…
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Intro to HTML/CSS for Girl Develop It South Jersey
A few weekends ago, I taught my first Girl Develop It class for the South Jersey chapter, over the bridge in Haddonfield, NJ. It was the 101 class — a basic intro to HTML & CSS. The class was small, with only 9 students, so it felt really low pressure and conversational. Throughout the class, the students asked…
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100 Days Left in 2015
Chad and I have been reading through the Bible this year. We both use an app with a reading plan that keeps us on track and tells us how many days we’ve completed. That’s how I know that this is day 265 of 2015. We have 100 days left. I had a pretty ambitious list…
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Back to Blogging
This unintentional break pretty quickly turned into an intentional one, especially on the heels of this post, where I started to publicly question whether I’d continue here, and if so, to what end. Partly, it was just normal stress and busyness: working full time, freelancing a lot, dealing with some health stuff, and a ton…