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This article, "Why We Should Learn To Embrace Failure" really resonated with me today. Elizabeth Day writes in The Guardian how we should learn to embrace failure. Failure is a starting point. There can be no success without it.
Day, a journalist and fiction writer, runs the podcast, How to Fail.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/15/divorce-miscarriage-jobs-learn-to-embrace-failure-elizabeth-day
Day recommends Tim Harford's Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure.
Parents may want to look at Jessica Lahey's The Gift of Failure.
While its hard to look at failure as a gift, its ultimately more healthy to look at failure as an opportunity.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Adafruit's HalloWing
Adafruit's new product, Hallowing, is perfect for Halloween,
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900
A similar yet different product, Adafruit's Animated Eyes Bonnet For Raspberry Pi,
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3813.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900
A similar yet different product, Adafruit's Animated Eyes Bonnet For Raspberry Pi,
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3813.
Check the Adafruit website for availability.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Columbus Day
Before you decide whether to celebrate Columbus day, read a biography about him. One of the best recent books about Columbus is actually about his illegitimate son, Hernando Columbus.
The Catalog of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest by Edward Wilson-Lee is an amazing story about Hernando and his desire to honor his father's memory while also creating the first private library.
The Catalog of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest by Edward Wilson-Lee is an amazing story about Hernando and his desire to honor his father's memory while also creating the first private library.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty: a Fun Novel That is also Thought Provoking
Young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty's newest novel is for adults, Gravity is the Thing, that is both a mystery, love story, comedy, and a light-hearted critique of the self-help industry.
Abi Sorenson's life is upended when her fifteen-year-old brother disappears on her birthday.
In his place, Abi begins receiving anonymous chapters from a self-help book called the Guidebook. She receives the chapters for twenty years and is asked now and then to mail "reflections."
Abi who has always believed there must be some connection between the missives and her brother's disappearance agrees to go to an all-expense paid trip to a remote island off of Tasmania.
The invitation promised someone would explain the truth of the Guidebook. On this island, she meets a kooky cast of participants who have also been receiving chapters of the Guidebook in the mail.
The truth, however, is not what Abi nor anyone else expects; she is curiously let down. She ultimately decides, as do a few others, to continue to take seminars with Wilbur, even though some think the seminars are a cult or a sham.
Nicole, Niall, Sasha, Anthony, Abi, and pest control man meet every Tuesday for wine and cheese or dessert at Wilbur's apartment. Though she expects little of these meetings, they have a profound effect upon her life.
Abi, who recently went through a divorce, and who subsequently opened a business, the Happiness Cafe, is looking for self-love, a sense of belonging, and romance.
The flight lessons, as the webinar is called, ultimately does give Abi what she needs though not in the way she predicts. This is an enjoyable, delightful, slightly off-kilter novel about self-discovery.
Friday, September 13, 2019
Getting Started with Linkedin Learning and Marketing
For most of us involved in the library field or any other service-driven field, marketing is an essential part of what we do. Unless you're already an HTML expert, Jen Kramer's "Practical HTML for Marketing Projects" is a good starting point.
She discusses text editors e.g. Sublime text and goes over basics for the beginner.
Jen Kramer's "Practical HTML for Marketing Projects" is an ideal place to start before diving into more complicated videos.
Kramer gives two challenges and their solutions. She stresses that her solutions are her interpretation of the design problem. Other solutions may work as well.
She cheerfully announces, "there's never just one solution in web design."
For learning how to create "repositories" in Github, watch James Williamson's "Github for Web Designers."
She discusses text editors e.g. Sublime text and goes over basics for the beginner.
Jen Kramer's "Practical HTML for Marketing Projects" is an ideal place to start before diving into more complicated videos.
Kramer gives two challenges and their solutions. She stresses that her solutions are her interpretation of the design problem. Other solutions may work as well.
She cheerfully announces, "there's never just one solution in web design."
For learning how to create "repositories" in Github, watch James Williamson's "Github for Web Designers."
Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Naomi's earliest memory is of herself as a ten-year-old running naked in a strawberry field. She runs towards migrant workers who take her to a sheriff.
Twenty years later, Naomi is a thirty-year-old private investigator trying to find a child who has disappeared while out on a family trip. Naomi has become a private investigator to atone, as she puts it, to "atone" for her past.
The child she seeks to save, however, has been lost for three years in a remote part of Willamette Valley. There's no evidence to suggest that the child is alive. The case is inactive and its assumed she has perished in the snow.
Naomi learns from each case and this case gives her most valuable insight yet. Glimmers of the past return as she finds the living conditions of the girl, a cave in a remote claim.
Denfeld, a former private investigator, writes a taut, psychological mystery with details that ring true.
A harrowing work of psychological fiction set in Oregon's Willamette Valley where fur trapping is still commonplace in remote towns. In one such town, a mysterious figure lives in obscurity. Years ago, he had been kidnapped and tortured by someone he calls simply "The Man."
Could this be mysterious figure be tied to the missing girl?
As Naomi reaches out to her foster bother, some of her lost memories return. After solving the case of the missing girl, called the "Snow Girl," Naomi vows to solve a more personal missing person case.
The Butterfly Girl is the second novel in the Naomi Cottle series.
https://renedenfeld.com/author/
Twenty years later, Naomi is a thirty-year-old private investigator trying to find a child who has disappeared while out on a family trip. Naomi has become a private investigator to atone, as she puts it, to "atone" for her past.
The child she seeks to save, however, has been lost for three years in a remote part of Willamette Valley. There's no evidence to suggest that the child is alive. The case is inactive and its assumed she has perished in the snow.
Naomi learns from each case and this case gives her most valuable insight yet. Glimmers of the past return as she finds the living conditions of the girl, a cave in a remote claim.
Denfeld, a former private investigator, writes a taut, psychological mystery with details that ring true.
A harrowing work of psychological fiction set in Oregon's Willamette Valley where fur trapping is still commonplace in remote towns. In one such town, a mysterious figure lives in obscurity. Years ago, he had been kidnapped and tortured by someone he calls simply "The Man."
Could this be mysterious figure be tied to the missing girl?
As Naomi reaches out to her foster bother, some of her lost memories return. After solving the case of the missing girl, called the "Snow Girl," Naomi vows to solve a more personal missing person case.
The Butterfly Girl is the second novel in the Naomi Cottle series.
https://renedenfeld.com/author/
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