I blog about technology, education, participation and so on, but I also have a deep love of creative writing. This category includes posts on my extracurricular writing endeavors and articles I’ve written that are more unrelated than related to education, technology or the rest of the themes here.
About once a year I make a pledge to myself that I’m going to spend more time writing and reflecting openly. I pledge to pontificate… Read More »Rating systems, livelihoods, intuition and the greater good
Originally published Digital Trash? Google+ on Medium. Not sure if you remember/care at all, but Google Plus is dead in the water. It will be… Read More »Digital Trash? Google+
Originally published Don’t wanna sell on Medium. “I can’t stress enough how important it is to have an engaged audience across multiple platforms, but especially… Read More »Don’t wanna sell
Originally published Welcome to 2019 on Medium. I don’t do resolutions, per se, but when I get too busy, I fall out of the habit… Read More »Welcome to 2019
Co-op Days January 2019 originally published on the We Are Open Co-op blog Hello world, it’s me, Laura, reporting to you live in the sporadic fashion… Read More »Here’s to the Crazy Ones
When I went to brush my teeth my reach for my hair clip was slightly less targeted then on most nights. My small finger brushed… Read More »Existential Trash
I was mansplained to and it pissed me off. I was told that my opinion was wrong and it pissed me off. I was told… Read More »Mansplain Poem
I was standing in my kitchen when I read the news. I had to sit down. Like I was in a movie. I couldn’t stand… Read More »On the #Brexit
Dear Content Producers, Please stop using the “Open Letter to…” headline for all your random crap. Listen, I can rant about this all day, but… Read More »Please stop using the “Open Letter to…” headline for all your random crap.
When we judge out loud (by writing, for example), we project morals and values. Social pressure is perceived. It happens when other people project their… Read More »Learning to understand social pressure