Kara’s Blog

Last year I visited one of my best friends in her new town of Montreal. From pretty much the moment my plane landed in Thunder Bay at the end of that vacation, I was looking forward to returning again the next year. This summer has had its share of ups and downs, but nothing was going to deter me from getting to spend some time with Rebecca in person in Montréal again. So…

I broke my elbow in early June. This was the first time I broke a bone, and the experience was enlightening on many levels.

Canadian politics is desperately lacking in anyone with as much fire as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and that's a problem.

Being part of a racist system doesn't make you racist. Refusing to acknowledge and stand up against system racism is what makes you racist.

In what is probably the most millennial move of my life, I have started a podcast with my bestie Becky. The podcast is called We Just LIke to Talk, and it launches today. Subscribe to it however you get your podcasts!

You may recall Becky as the friend I visited in Montreal at the end of the summer. We’ve known each other for several years now, but we’ve grown a lot closer over the…

I just started writing my review for Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, by Claire L. Evans. If I had timed things better, I could have written this review earlier and published it today, on Ada Lovelace Day. As it is, I’ve paused writing my review of this amazing book for a quick blog post about this day and women in STEM in general.

Ada Lovelace, by…

I reflect on writing over 1400 detailed reviews, one for every book I’ve read since joining Goodreads 10 years ago.

I went on vacation to visit my friend Rebecca in her new city of Montreal, and I had an awesome, relaxing time.

It has been over five years since the last major redesign of my website! The gap is largely because, as I’ve grown older and become more occupied with adulting and other real-life things, I’ve lost much of my interest in coding. I’m finding it difficult to devote the time required to keep up with advances in technologies like CSS, much less finishing my own designs or tweaking the software needed to keep the lights…

I have a new phone for the first time in nearly 4 years. Thoughts on upgrading and a cursory review.