Eating my way around Oaxaca – My summer adventure

The Setup This summer the family and I travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico where my big kids took Spanish immersion classes in a kids summer camp, and I worked remotely for the month of July (there are amazing coworking spaces and cafes with great internet). My youngest shared a babysitter with a friend doing the same Read More …

Back on the blogging train – how to debug a WordPress site 503 error 🤝 motivate yourself to blog

It’s been in my planner for months: get back to blogging. So when I finally sat down last night to blog I was dismayed to see my WordPress website totally inaccessible, displaying a 503 error: Note: since this is self hosted, yours truly is the aforementioned Technical Support department. Not to be blocked there, I Read More …

Exporting my Medium content to a self hosted WordPress installation

After a long time separating out my humanities and lifestyle blogging from my technical blogging, I’m transitioning my Medium over to this blog permanently to have a unified polymathic single stop shop for thoughts. This process was a bit cumbersome to discover, as the AIs and many threads claimed there was a plugin or native Read More …