It’s been a lot
It’s been a couple months since my last post…and it’s been busy. I finished my first university Python course and then, while I wait for next semester, I jumped into a Python bootcamp via Udemy. Still working on that.. In the meantime, I discovered AI. As in, not just the YouTube hype AI I usually
Her Birthday
Remember blogging from before we cared about SEO or hawking other people’s products or building landing pages for funnels? It’s been a while. I’m not saying this website isn’t going to try and sell something, too. It will… eventually. But for now, I’m enjoying the almost vintage blogging experience of just sharing my thoughts because I
The Plan
SO what’s the big plan for 2024? Here’s the main idea: Get healthy Do art Build solutions Make money I’ve been on a bit of a health journey for the last few months…a very slow journey, one that is currently sitting in a setback thanks to the holiday season. My first priority is to get
Hello 2024
I’m a resolution maker. I love to plan. My plans are huge and elaborate and beautiful …and detailed and complicated and ridiculously ambitious. That’s not a bad thing, I’ve reasoned after many years of results that might disappoint others. If I aim for the stars and only reach the moon… I made it to the
An Awakening
It’s been a pivotal time of my life. You know those ones. . .something happens – or a series of little somethings happen – to jostle your existential awareness and make you re-evaluate the bubble of a world that you’ve built for yourself. This time around, my series of little somethings has included the passing
Easy Win Double Chocolate Brownies
These are ‘Easy Win’ because they’re so easy to make, and they’re a bunch of crowd pleasers, I tell ya. They’re guaranteed to win you new friends… and maybe a few willpower-tired, diet-conscious enemies, too. (I’m sorry.) It’s all about moderation, though, right? That’s what I hear, anyway – I’m more of an ‘in-excess’ kinda
Renovation
Our house is under construction again… its first refurbishing in probably 30 years. It was definitely in need of some TLC. We had to pack up and vacate the house for the few weeks of renovation. Digging up and culling a decades’ worth of clutter was huge, sometimes painful, but eventually therapeutic work. My mom
Swinging jewels, stringing gemstones and black gold
Manaui.com is officially live now, yay! …along with the mad rush that is the publishing industry. “Content, content, content!” is my new, fabulous life. Next on the agenda is to figure out how to get paid for it. Whole ‘nother story for a whole ‘nother day. Right now, it’s all about telling great stories and
The last thing I baked was panipopo
That was a couple months ago, now. I documented that adventure, even, in my last Manaui post. To kick start our 2018 content run for Manaui, our team challenged each other to write one post each. The topic chosen for me was about the Samoan panipopo. Crazy coincidence – that just happens to be one
Wellington
I’ve been reacquainting myself with my camera. This time, I’m teaching myself how to do this photography thing, like, for reals. Thanks to the incredibly informative World Wide Web, I now have a pretty good understanding of F-stop and shutter speed, and even ISO. But while these technical skills are the tools of the art