Girl Day is February 27, a day set aside to encourage girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). I had to correct the “T,” at first I typed theology. It’s been a while since theology would have generally fit on that list …hundreds of years. It fits for me in that girls in theology are still rare. My own interest in STEM started when Bell Labs gathered kids from all over Dallas and put on a show for us — maybe…..
The Blue Ink Review beat out the competition to provide the first professional review of the book Rekindled, posted here. I was warned to have a thick skin on this review business. Really, it is a fine review. It gets the spirit of the book right. What they say about what I did is true — I certainly did not make the characters use archaic language as that would have made the story really hard to read. I stand by that, even…..
When I was an engineer, my mentor told me I had to choose. I could either get things done or I could take credit for getting things done. There is simply not time be the best at both. It seemed incredibly unfair at the time, but all my subsequent experience showed that I was better off getting things done and pairing up with people who wanted to spend time getting credit (they usually shared credit anyway — at a fraction of the…..