Category: Travel & Leisure
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A chilly and rainy week in Munich
About a week ago I returned home from a week-long work trip to Munich, to meet up with many of the people behind WordPress.com whether it be our developers, Happiness Engineers, marketing, etc. It was an energizing trip and the week really flew by. I managed to get out a bit and explore some of…
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A Quick Trip to National Harbor, MD
After being home for nearly a month, clearly I was itching for another trip (this is sarcasm) so in mid-August I packed my brand new suitcase and headed up to the Washington DC area for WordCamp US. If you’re not familiar, WordCamps happen all over the globe and you can learn a lot about what…
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A Summer Week in Athens, Greece
A few weeks ago I returned from a week-long work trip to Athens, Greece so I figured I’d write about that and share some pictures before I embark on my next trip. 😅 The trip was so amazing overall: food was delicious (yet salty!), weather was ideal (but hot!), and the company was top notch…
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A Spring Week in NYC
In September 2021, I became a Happiness Engineer Lead at Automattic for WordPress.com after spending a little over 5 years as a Happiness Engineer. Throughout my progression from HE to HE Lead, I had so many fellow leads guiding me and also consulted many resources. Still, Reboot training is offered to all new or aspiring…
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Happiness Division Meetup in Denver
Last week, I spent time in Denver with around 400 other Automatticians, mostly from our Happiness division – support for WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and many more awesome services.
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Our First Family Trip – Texas
Never would I imagine that Willa would turn 3 before taking her first flights, but due to the pandemic that’s the reality! We always said once Willa was vaccinated for COVID, that we would take a trip down to Texas and finally we made that happen. We had such a blast and wanted to share…
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Madrid + Nashville
It was really never my intention to avoid travel after Willa was born, but as you all know the pandemic hit in late March 2020 when she was just 7 months old. We hadn’t gone anywhere as a family or separately at that point because we didn’t want to expose an infant to unnecessary germs,…
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How I Spent My Sabbatical
My sabbatical ends today, boo hoo. (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, check out this post.) I had a nice 3 months off, but to be honest I spent my sabbatical different than I had ever planned to. I had always dreamed of traveling a ton during my sabbatical, but the pandemic really…
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Day One of Sabbatical
This morning started out like weekdays usually do – we got Willa ready for school and I dropped her off. The only difference was, I didn’t rush back home to start my work day. I won’t do that again until July 1, three months from now.