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Freelance tech journalist and author, digital nomad, Apple guru, IT strategist and mentor, retired yoga teacher, typography nerd, Star Trek fan, cat lover, they/he | 🏳️‍🌈🐈🖖🕉️

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Seven questions that need answering about the Buffy reboot

Buffy’s final episode ended with her, with Willow’s help, changing the world. Although the story continued in graphic novel form, fans have been wishing for a return of the show to the screens and it’s finally happening. After years of being against the idea, star Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed on to return to the […]

Have your important documents ready for whoever will take care of you – sooner or later someone will need them

Have a power of attorney and other documents. Have them before they’re needed. Have them in a place where your partner/spouse/child/sibling/whoever will care for you can easily find them. You may not be able to do this once someone is in a hospital or care facility.

Apple’s hospital announcement is just an out of touch and elitist grab for attention

There’s nothing revolutionary here, that the Republican-led Congress is busy eviscerating so much of the US healthcare system shows how completely out of touch reality Apple has become.

Swapping out Siri? That raises a lot of questions

The big Apple news of the weekend is that the company may be forced into opening up its various platforms to virtual assistants other than Siri. The idea of swapping out Siri seems a bit radical. Siri may well be the biggest of all the things that are baked into every Apple product and that […]

First Book… next book?

Some reflections on my first book as I contemplate writing another book I was 23 when I signed my first book deal. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. With the exception of one atrocious novel and a bunch of fan fiction, I’d never written anything beyond 10 – 15 pages and […]

Books that matter to me: Still Writing by Dani Shapiro

[Still Writing] is beautifully written, with tons of passages that I’ve underlined, put stars next to and generally jotted notes about. Shapiro has managed to beautifully capture what writing feels like to me.

Books that Matter to me: Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer

This bookis excellent because it tells the entirety of the East German story, beginning decades before WWII, from the East German perspective and it does so without the presumptions of many books on the Cold War.

My favorite Stage Manager feature is something we never talk about

Stage Manager’s biggest asset to me is that windowed apps can be resized to give space at the bottom of the screen for the dock.

Can you share the Apple Vision Pro experience or is it too personal?

Can the device itself be easily shared? Is the experience of using it something that only the owner (or primary user) can fully appreciate, understand or usable - is it too personal to share with someone else?

All healthcare needs to be gender affirming and not anxiety inducing

It shouldn’t give me a panic attack to get general medical care. In a perfect world, I wouldn’t need to. There wouldn’t be just the binary on the medical form.