How Teaching Kids Programming Can Help Break the Poverty Cycle: A Personal Story

When I got married at 18, without any way to support myself, and my then-husband, at 20, had no real means to provide for a family, we were setting ourselves up for failure. My son recently asked what we were thinking—how we planned to support ourselves—and honestly, we weren’t thinking about it. Ridiculous, I know. […]
Why I “Have A Thing For Old Cars”… Or How People Want You To Stay Poor

After a long day at the beach, sitting down next to my car at the side of the road, waiting for the tow truck after it died. This was on the one year anniversary of getting my car. My car is like an old person with arthritis. Its bones creak and groan. It isn’t broken, […]