Many years ago I became friends through other friends with a young man who had lost the use of his arms and legs. He was at a river with some friends in a boat, and he took a dive from the back of the boat into what he was sure was pretty deep water. It…
I get really excited when I have a new piece of tech gear. Even when I got my the equipment for my work-from-home office, I seriously enjoyed getting it set up. It’s probably pretty common, we want to play with our new toys and we often don’t give much thought to something important until it…
Over Labor Day weekend of 2024, my husband and I visited the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Neither of us had visited the museum before, and we were looking forward to it a lot. We both enjoy history museums, both for the facts and for the personal accounts. I recommend this experience…
I’m not an inventor. There, I said it, it’s out in the open. Truthfully, I doubt anyone ever figured I was, so nobody’s disappointed with my statement. When we picture an inventor, we imagine Caractacus Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Doc Brown from Back to the Future. You know, people who seek to…
Living in a digital age means that device connectivity is of critical importance. While most of the time, it’s merely inconvenient when one of our devices won’t “talk” to another one. However, there are times when it absolutely has to work. Emergency services rely on stable connections. Business and financial transactions occur in fractions of…
Do you think you’re immune to bias in your judgments and decisions? Well, you may be…but it’s doubtful that you’re completely free from all biases. That’s right, there’s more than one kind of bias. I’ve got a list of six, the six most common biases, and that’s what we’re going to explore today. I’m not…
The Exposure Triangle (ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed) is only one concept of photography that a photographer needs to accommodate, but it’s an important one. There are a lot of things that can be adjusted with post-production tools like Photoshop. But shutter speed gives you creative options that you’ll want to learn in the camera, which…
One of the best ways to ensure privacy is using encryption. We typically think of encryption as a security measure, and it is. Encryption is the factor that makes it safe to bank and shop online, send sensitive information through email, and file our taxes online. Encryption makes military communication possible as well. Both privacy…
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I am also a lot of other things – wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt, grandmother, employee, photographer, author, friend – but the most important part of my identity is that of a disciple of Jesus Christ. I follow Jesus Christ and I try to emulate His example of…
Between 2005 and 2009, Chicago had a challenging problem that the city leaders absolutely needed to solve: unacceptable rates of foodborne illnesses. The city had limited resources for making health inspections in food service spots. Restaurant inspections were generated from complaints or randomly, but they were ineffective in curbing the problem. When the city turned…
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