For many people the word apprenticeship makes you think of plumbers or electricians. It may surprise you to learn that there are many people, myself included, who think apprenticeship and software development go hand and hand. A quick search in any search engine will give you a list of companies, both big and small, who …
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Scrum Master
Option 1: Scrum Master This is an excellent option for entering the software market without having a computer science degree or knowing how to code. Scrum Alliance describes the role of a scrum master as “The scrum master is the team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the …
What Privilege looks like
A group of children are playing at a public park. The group of children are a mix of ages and races. An older Caucasian man with no children pulls into the parking lot. He spends some time sitting in his car looking at the kids. Then he gets out his car, walks to the front …
A clarification
I don’t know why my post that said “Don’t kill each other” translated into I support racists, but it did for many of you so I am going to use very small words and type slowly so that the idea gets to you in short bursts rather than long, complicated sentences. Racism is a belief, …
The conversation
I was making my morning coffee. I walked up to my husband and asked if he had read the news. He said yes and he was thinking about what to do. Neither of us had to inquire with the other about what part of the news we were referring to. We both had the …
A disclaimer
I don’t know how my mother did it, but she did, All I can think is that she must be some kind of miracle worker because I grew up in a color blind world. I had friends of every color, race, nationality. I had Asian, hispanic, Mexican, caucasian, and black friends. We had sleepovers, I …
Showers and Dinosaurs
You know that scene in Jurassic Park where the kids escape the hungry velociraptor by running into the kitchen and closing the door. Everyone is relieved because we all know that dinosaurs cannot open door and then..the dino opens the door. That happened to me this morning. THe velociraptor’s name is Sol. I …
On writing
I have a very strong desire to write. I have a plan to become a blogging goddess with a book deal that turns into a multimillion dollar movie deal. I am missing a few things: 1. Time. It is 11:30pm. I have been awake since 7am. One baby is awake and nursing as I write …
Toddler Tuesday
I have big plans for toddler Tuesdays. I have no time to implement those grand plans so I will console myself by posting pictures of my time thieves. Today we visited the San Antonio Children’s museum, my toddler thought the grocery store was the beat part. He was very careful to select only the best …
Adventure in Costco
It starts with my putting the car in park, looking in the back and realizing that I forgot Hume’s shoes. No problem, I thought, Lilith can carry him. We get out of the car and I give Kyson my Costco card. “This is a big responsibility “ I tell him , “because I can’t get …
Yep That's Me 