Category: Lifelong Learning


  • My tug of war with farm life

    Waking up here is glorious. The horses are standing in the sun. The kittens are playing, Button is lounging on the bed, Squid on his floor bed, and Diego is just outside chilling on the yoga mat. They are waiting for me to go for a walk. Around here, no one cares if I’m dressed…

  • The Gift of Silence

    “Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence” and “in the noisy confusion of life keep peace in your soul” – Max Erhmann, Desiderata The best gift I (re)found here is silence. To be clear, silence includes the chirp of birds and the crowing of the rooster…

  • Human Centered Service

    Dear Nurse Practitioner, I am a human. It is funny how much your lasting impression can come from what we hear at the conclusion of a conversation. I heard – we’ll see what the insurance will allow for and really, throughout the conversation, I felt more like an appointment than a human. Meaning, rather than…

  • My first GitHub Repository

    My Personal Trackers You may have read my previous post about my need for a specialized ‘accountability and reflection’ morning tracking system, well, as I used it I realized I really needed a follow up evening tracker. By the way – I have come to loathe the name tracker but I cannot think of anything…

  • Did Rise AI Do it Better?

    Mini Course Design in under 1 hour Well – it certainly did it faster and better than I could have achieved with ChatGPT or Claude.ai. In fact, in creating the Storyline course I tried to use the deep research paper mentioned below to generate elements of the course and that was not exactly successful. But…

  • Using ChatGPT Images in Firefly

    This is short post that I might add to. The big takeaways are: I’d need to dig further but, at the end of the day, it seems as though Adobe is saying NOPE – can’t play with that. The quick fix is simple. Open the image in a program like PSD save as a PSD…

  • Coding LXD with genAI

    genAI Reminded Me To Code When I discovered that there is quite a bit more that I remember about coding than I thought it started to become an obsession. At first it was to create some cool interactions for my Root Delight project/business. Then it got deeper and, like when I first discovered MidJourney, not…

  • Why I created my own personal tracking app

    My relationship with routine is tenuous at best. There is a reason for that. I get bored and I live on a farm where life itself is some kind of 0-infinity variable that is impossible to predict. I have to stay adaptable so I do not self combust when there is disruption. At the same…