Category: Ask Me

  • My Week of Gratitude: May 22 – 26, 2023

    Here’s what I am grateful for this week. I have to admit, since I’ve started doing this, I’ve been trying more and more to be grateful of things each day, no matter how small they may seem. It has certainly helped with my mood and spirits. I hope you all…

  • My Week of Gratitude: May 15 – 19, 2023

    I decided to break out this into its own separate blog post, as I feel it warrants it by encouraging me to be more mindful of things, and to focus more on things that I’m grateful for each week, no matter how small. Here is what I am grateful for…

  • Thoughts About Feeling Valid

    Thoughts About Feeling Valid

    BREAKING NEWS: I am an emotional person. I’m an empath. I’ve noticed that as I grow older, I become more and more emotional and empathic. Seeing things that invoke emotions where people are crying or doing something touching, will invariably have my teary-eyed, or outright crying. Seeing images or videos…

  • Something Gave Me Pause This Morning, and I Just Had to Write About It

    Something Gave Me Pause This Morning, and I Just Had to Write About It

    Something occurred to me this morning, that never really had before. It made me think so much, that I just HAD to write something about it. I was listening to the latest episode of the #HackingHumans podcast with Dave Bittner and Joseph Carrigan on the way to work like everyone does (everyone DOES listen to it,…

  • Why Am I Interested in Security Awareness?

    Why Am I Interested in Security Awareness?

    FYI: I wrote and posted this on my LinkedIn profile on Jan. 29, 2023. I’m HORRIBLE at remembering to share my posts across social media consistently. I see it posted time and time again across various social media sites… Gatekeeping. Ever see/hear things like this before?  “If you want to…

  • Support: Nope, No Clever Titles for This One

    Support: Nope, No Clever Titles for This One

    Today, I am truly a believer that a spark of creativity can be ignited from ANYTHING. Yep, seriously! What sold me on it? A simple sentence I received in a DM from someone. “Did you get your creativity back yet?” Yep, that’s it. If you follow me on other social…

  • Some Thoughts for the New Year…

    Some Thoughts for the New Year…

    Hey everyone! Yes, I’m still out here. I have just been off of work since the 9th of December until the new year. It’s been my hope and intention to use this time off to rest, relax, recharge, and hopefully rediscover my creativity and passion. I’ll be back at it…

  • Musings and Deep Thoughts Re: Twitter

    Musings and Deep Thoughts Re: Twitter

    I’ll likely post these deep thoughts here on my blog as well as they come to me. I feel like my creativity is slowly coming back, having been using Mastodon (a Twitter-like alternative) for over a week now. I have to remind myself that Mastodon isn’t Twitter. Not everyone that…

  • It’s Been a Minute.

    It’s Been a Minute.

    Hey everyone 👋🏼 Yes, it’s been a few minutes since I’ve posted something on here. I’ve been active, just not really actively posting. My bad! You may have heard a little something about this one social media site being purchased by some super-rich person. If you haven’t heard about it,…

  • Reflection Time …

    Reflection Time …

    Today has been an interesting day of reflection.  Learning new things …Seeing new ways of viewing things … What did I learn today? ✅ – The “pink tax”Honestly, this was something I was vaguely aware of, but today, it became crystal clear how much of a thing this is. If…