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  • The 100 Day Project

    So now I'm going to add in another thing to my days to help me slow down and also get back in the habit of regular sketching. For my 100 Day Project I'm going to do a daily sketch journal.

  • Work and life

    I’ve spent the last several years thinking about work. It all began when I read <em>The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work</em> by Joanne B. Ciulla. A book that still has me thinking about what it means to work in the current US culture, along with how work has changed over history. Since Ciulla traces work from hundreds of years ago to modern times, it’s a look at many different ways of thinking about work.

  • Anatomy of a Misfit

    I keep a rather long list of books in both my library wish list as well as Amazon's wish list. They get on the list through a variety of means, maybe I read about them in the New York Times book section, maybe someone tweeted about them, maybe I saw them mentioned in an article I read&mdash;but no matter how they get there, I usually don't get to them until I've long forgotten how or the source.

  • Daily jottings

    I started a new intention back in January, and since I'm still doing it fairly regularly, I guess you could say it's a habit now. I began what I've called my Daily Jottings.

  • Fun home

    I read Alison Bechdel's <em>Fun Home</em> based on several recommendations. It was my first graphic novel with serious subject matter since I read <em>Maus</em> many years ago.

  • Little Susie

    Reflections on the past year and a glimpse of the little me as I turn a year older.

  • Recent comics read

    Here's the most recent comics I've been reading. It's been so fantastic to get so many wonderful recommendations from fellow comic readers. Thank you all so much!

  • Success

    I got off the paved road a while ago, it just didn’t seem worth it to me. Because other things than what my culture tells me is success is what I feel makes me successful. But it isn't always easy.

  • Reputation not brand

    I only knew David Carr by reading his column almost every week. Since he died last week, I've read a lot of the various remembrances of him because he, now that I'm learning more, was a fascinating person.

  • Ms. Marvel

    I know, I just wrote about comics last week, but I'm writing about them again. Because I read my first super hero comic over the weekend, actually I devoured it.

  • Responsive Web Design, Second Edition

    I read the first edition of Ethan Marcotte's <em>Responsive Web Design</em> when it came out and just today finished reading the second edition. Ethan is a wonderful writer, making me laugh and keeping my attention, even when the division sign is used a lot.

  • Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

    I finally read Lara Hogan's fantastic <em>Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed</em> over the past couple days. It's a fantastic read, along with Scott Jehl's book <em>Responsible Responsive Design</em> should be read by pretty much everyone working on the design and front end of sites today since performance is such a crucial element of our work.

  • Comics, comics, comics

    Almost one year ago I read my first comic. I know, I'm a late bloomer here. But since that first trade of <em>Fables</em> I've become a comic lover. Since I'm trying to record what I've read on this site, comics are no different, but since I don't really highlight from them, I'm just going to do a roundup here of the latest series I've started reading in the last month.

  • Making a journal

    Last Saturday I got up and had an easy morning and then packed up a tote with supplies and headed to the southeast campus of Portland Community College to take a class on book binding, specifically learning to make journals.

  • Part time

    Part-time work doesn't seem to exist in the tech industry and I find that intriguing and perplexing. Why? Why are companies not filling gaps with part-time employees?