Mrs. Enginerd - Nerd Whisperer
When I saw this book at the Amazon Books store at the University Village in Seattle, I couldn’t believe my luck. The 20 sided die, 1d20, my favorite polyhedral, was featured in the cover and the subtitle made me wonder if the experience of playing a D&D campaign could be captured in 285 pages. Magically, […]
For those of you who don’t know her, Isabel Allende is a pint sized power house Latin American writer credited with works in magical realism featuring strong female characters, so uniquely executed that the late Gabriel García Marquez recognized her body of work as excellent representations of the genre. (He should know because he invented […]
Amazon opened a brick and mortar store in the area where I live and originally, I had very little interest in checking out their set up. I didn’t see a reason to cheat on Barnes and Noble which is way closer to my home when lo and behold, one of my friends posted a link […]
This holiday season, step outside of the proverbial box and give the children in your family a gift that will help them enhance their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. Living in the digital age where computers and the internet rule supreme, we must continue to steer children into STEM fields or eventually, we […]
Finally! After three decades of waiting it has finally arrived! October 21st 2015 is upon us and as I write this the Cubs are losing against the Mets during Game 3 of the National League Divisional Series. Sure, there is still time to turn it around but as the old man that Marty runs into […]
Malcolm Gladwell explores the art of battling giants explaining the strengths of being an underdog and the weaknesses of not considering the limits of authority. To present a cohesive argument, he uses examples to argue both sides of each coin, using each part of the book to conduct in depth discussions of the psychology of […]
Back in 2009, when I was planning to expand our family by adding a third player to our game, we decided to buy a 2010 Mazda CX-9 with the third row of seats, Touring model. We didn’t really need all the bells and whistles, and the keyless entry came in handy most days, but we […]
After reading and watching The Martian, I couldn’t help but pick up this item at my local Barnes and Noble store. It seems space travel and related subjects, like The Astronauts Wives Club book and series of the same name, are becoming popular again and can be found everywhere books are sold. Maybe recent proclamations […]
From organizational structures to everyday routines, most of us fail to create systems that will help us process, archive and retrieve the information we need to make decisions effectively. By exploring the techniques in his book, The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin invites us to learn about our own cognitive limitations when processing information in […]
If you are a fan of The Terminator franchise, you are already familiar with the predestination paradox Kyle Reese cemented when he became John Connor’s father. Regardless of how you justify the existence of this universe, and the parentage of the world’s savior, it all comes down to one detail: John Connor and Skynet are […]
Mrs. Enginerd - Nerd Whisperer 
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