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Adulting Château Enginerd DIY Poetry

99 Problems, and a Valve Became 100

Woke up to electronic chirping,The garage door opening and closing,Guest shower running,The sound of rummaging through tool kits… Found E troubleshooting,a misbehaving closure valve,Vapor turned water,dripping down the wall,How will we manage to shut the water off? One YouTube video later, the culprit was found!Home Depot had the parts,Victory! All these efforts occurred,Between 630 am […]

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Adulting Mrs Enginerd

A Decade of Resiliency

Ten years ago, in May of 2025, I started this blog out of a need to communicate my thoughts and experiences fresh out of my first career layoff. At the time, it served as a vessel to collect historical data on my progress as a bereft human who, for much of her early adulthood, feared […]

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Mrs Enginerd STEM

#IMarriedAnEngineer

February celebrates National E-Week and this year, I’d like to try to start a movement to celebrate all engineering spouses. It is not easy to love and support this rare breed of human who can fix anything, break anything, and explain anything that crosses their path with math, science and a nerdy sense of humor. […]

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Mrs Enginerd STEM SWE 2017

Opening Thoughts on SWE 2017

With the hashtags #We17, #WomenMakeUsBetter and #BalanceTheEquation all over the twitterverse, it is evident that the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Austin is all about #STEMinism. As companies attempt to recruit, retrain and promote women into positions of leadership and technical excellence there is an accompanying social push to redefine gender roles in the […]