I spent considerable time in the Middle East in 2018. I traveled to four different countries in the region, Isreal, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia (with Egypt technically being in northern Africa). I learned a lot. I’m writing this to share my experiences in the Middle East, the good and the bad, so that if the more »

I spent the weekend learning React.js. It’s amazing how clean the code is. Check out my Tic Tac Toe game (it includes “time traveling” for you skeptics!).

I turned 26 in February. At my 25th birthday, I expected to have a bit of a quarter-life crisis, and that never really came. However on the first anniversary of my expected quarter-life crisis, I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s important to me. One of my recurring thoughts relates to health. I thought I more »

Year In Review As 2017 closes down, I’d like to reflect on the events of the past year. I visited New England for the first time, changed roles at work, suffered a fairly serious head injury (and recovered), crossed a few items off my bucket list and made countless other memories. Happenings Activities Canoe and more »

Cincinnati has had a Thanksgiving day race since 1909, making this year’s race the 108th annual Thanksgiving day race for the city. This is my 8th annual race running on the day of Thanksgiving. I first started when a friend, Katelyn Kramer invited me to join in 2010, my freshman year of college: That year more »

by Charlotte Perkins I recently heard The Yellow Wall-Paper (dash included by the author) on the podcast Stuff You Should Know. The novella (or short story) depicts a woman married to a physician in the year 1892. Throughout the story the woman slowly becomes mad, obsessed with the wallpaper of the a room in which more »

One of my responsibilities in producing software at Epic is planning for projects. This involves considering: Man-hours required to complete a given project spread across stages of design, development, code review and testing A projected deadline based on the project’s scope and number of full time employees This is not something that my company has more »

I’ve long kept a cherished word document on my (aging) Macbook. One of the things most important to me, besides the pictures, is my bucket list, which I had titled “Things to do before I die (.docx)”. I thought it would be nice to share to see what, if any, overlap others might have in more »

My cousin Justin and his wife Missy recently gave birth to an adorable 7lb 11oz baby Gradyn Chase Games. He is the first of my cousins to have a child and I’m super excited for him. The name Gradyn (or Grady as they intend to call him) seemed particularly unique to me and got me more »