Barbara Kingsley Started TikTok at 77. Now She Has 100,000 Followers and a Website to Match.

Barbara Kingsley spent 12 years as a high school English teacher, then six more doing PR for her school district. She retired in 2018. Then, in January 2024, she picked…

Beautiful!

I tip my hat to the Philadelphia Horticultural Society (PHS), for it is the producer and director of the wonderful Philadelphia Flower Show, an event first staged in 1829 when…

Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence

Jetpack 15.6 is out, and it’s a big one for anyone using Jetpack Social to share WordPress content across social media.  We’re talking per-platform post customization, a rebuilt preview modal,…

Navigating the 2026 Enrollment Landscape: How Smart Recruiters Are Reaching the Next Generation of Graduate Talent

Higher education recruitment is entering a period of profound transformation. Across Europe and globally, universities are facing shrinking domestic student pools, rising cost concerns, and increasingly skeptical prospective students. At the…

Condemned to Decide

Part I: Bharat Mandapam There’s a particular kind of person who is so good at their job that they have no time to waste on talking about it to the…

Walking from Guelb er Richat to Nouakchott

Exped 233; a 700-km walk from the Eye of the Sahara to Nouakchott  by Simon Cope December 2025-January 2026 The Richat Structure, often called the ‘Eye of Africa’ is a prominent circular geological…

How Encircle Technologies Built a Smarter Agency Stack Around WordPress.com

Rahul Tulsiyani has seen the full spectrum of web development.  His agency, Encircle Technologies, runs a 50–60-person team across development, QA, and UI/UX design, based in India, building everything from…

Advice I don’t know if I would have taken.

What advice would I give to my teenage self? Every day I walk into a classroom of teenagers, and every day I remember how I felt when I was their…

Reality is a load of balls

“Everything that we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” ~ Niels…

The Everyday, Rarely-Instagrammed-Things

On the way to the second floor of my house on Saturday, I sat down on the stairs. Exhausted from three straight months of all-things-relocation, I opened Instagram. Twenty doomscrolling…