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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more
After WCEU, I took the opportunity to visit my cousin who is living in Switzerland for the summer. Not far from where she lives is a town called Grindelwald and up the mountain from there, Pfingstegg. As it happens, our grandparents visited there about 40 years ago, so we decided to try to find all […]
I have finally finished processing all the photos from my trip to Paris & Switzerland! Here are some from WordCamp Europe. See the full album on Flickr.
WordCamp Europe is off to an amazing start! w00t! #wceu is on pic.twitter.com/keIlf8ZREW — Kristen Symonds (@kristarella) June 16, 2017 We had Contributor Day yesterday, which was jam-packed and seemed to go really well. I liked having it before the conference this time, rather than afterwards, which was the case last year. This venue is […]
Woot! WordCamp Europe (WCEU) is just a few days away; and as I write I am in the airport lounge doing some work, enjoying some dessert, and thinking about WordCamp. I love WordCamps in general for a number of reasons. In no particular order some of those are: learning teaching amazing community swag inspiration community […]
Last time I wrote about the voice in my head. I will write more about dealing with that another time. Today I want to write about the importance of happy places. Everyone has happy places. They are important for everyone, but they are extra important in managing depression and anxiety. These are not necessarily literal places, […]
I have a voice in my head that almost constantly tells me how unhappy I am. Ugh, I’m so unhappy. Oh my god, I’m so sad. Fuck, I’m so angry… It whispers to me anytime there is a quiet moment that it can be heard. Sometimes it tells me other things, like how much I […]
