About Me

I've been a librarian, an editor, a web developer, and a church administrator (which used many of the skills I picked up in those other previous careers, plus some light bookkeeping, operations, and wildlife management). I've worked in television, libraries, and non-profits, but mostly, I've worked in higher ed. Currently I'm doing LMS administration, tech support, and IT management.

I'd like to say I have interesting hobbies, but my main hobby is this: building little websites, and fiddling with them, changing a comma here and there, adding a light/dark toggle, refactoring CSS. I occasionally make improvements to my oldest personal project, The Mapback Index.

I do like to read, and pretend to garden, and hang out with my cats.

I love to learn new things, but I am currently in a phase of going back and learning how to do things I already know how to do, but better. So I'm slowly making my way through some modern PHP and CSS resources to update my knowledge of both of those things. I'm also completing the Adobe Content Creator certificate at Coursera, along with the Google Project Management certificate. Both of those are work-related, but not strictly speaking work.

I've been online since around 1989 sometime, when I got my first email address (with BITNET in it!) and discovered LISTSERVs. I've had blogs, and a couple of LiveJournal accounts. I was on Facebook when you still had to have a .edu address to join, and on Gmail when you had to have an invitation. I'm a veteran of Usenet and IRC, AOL and Gopher and MUDs and MOOs. I was very active on Twitter for a long time, and even though I've deleted my account now, I still miss it. I've loved all of that, and yet... there are still many days when I wish the internet didn't exist. But if you're seeing this, then the day I wrote it was not one of those days.

To find out more about how I built this site and grab my ridiculous 90s-style badges, see my About This Site page.