Father's Day DIY Shirt

DIY Father’s Day Gift: Decorate a T-Shirt

Father’s Day is right around the corner. A homemade t-shirt is the perfect way to make someone smile. Whether you’re celebrating the day with your pops or if you just want to gift someone you know who’s a parent, putting love and time into a Father’s Day gift like this makes that person cherish it even more. I created this t-shirt design for last year’s Father’s Day with a little…Continue reading DIY Father’s Day Gift: Decorate a T-Shirt

Celebrating Mother's Day with Dad

Celebrating Mother’s Day with Dad

For the past 26 years, I’ve celebrated Mother’s Day with my dad – my strong, inspiring, hard-working, and awesomely attentive parent. He’s served as both a mother and father to me since my birth mother was absent from my entire life. Okay, I guess you can break out the tissues if you really need them because things are going to get a little personal here. Let’s take it back, and…Continue reading Celebrating Mother’s Day with Dad

Courtney Cannon, American Sign Language Instructor

Meet Courtney Cannon – American Sign Language Instructor

I stumbled upon a snippet about Courtney Cannon in our high school alumni magazine a few months ago. I learned alumna Courtney became deaf at a very young age, powering through 18 years of speech therapy. She returned to our high school in 2017 to teach American Sign Language as an elective. Not only that, but she and her husband taught their children American Sign Language as their first language!…Continue reading Meet Courtney Cannon – American Sign Language Instructor

SEO search engine optimization

SEO: From foreign phrase to Google’s first page

Google receives more than 100 billion searches a month (Source: Mashable, 2015). Among these searches, writers, business owners, and companies try to land on that coveted first page using something called SEO. SEO stands for search engine optimization, which puts in a good word with search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to rank us so people can discover our business, our blog, and our words. To me, “SEO” always sounded like a foreign,…Continue reading SEO: From foreign phrase to Google’s first page