Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

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Person using a pen to handwrite a checklist in a paper journal.

You know that awful thing you hope never happens when you’re making changes on your website?

It happened to me this morning.

I was working on my site, updating plugins, making changes in multiple places, checking the configuration for some obscure setting that took me down a rabbit hole.

When suddenly, when I review my site, it’s not displaying the way it should.

Some update I made caused a problem with search disappearing.

The blog page was empty, there were no posts.

Uh oh. Continue reading Recovering and Restoring a Website: Planning Makes a Difference

3 Secrets of Resilient People: TED Talk

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Dr. Lucy Hone on stage at TEDx Christchurch 2019

Adversity doesn’t discriminate, says resilience researcher Dr. Lucy Hone.

Whether you’ve struggled with death of a loved family member or friend, lived through a natural disaster, been bullied, coped with mental illness or been fired from a job, you’ve had to deal with tough times.

And when those times come, you’re often made to feel the victim.

Why did this happen to you?

It can become easy to fall into the habit of focusing on negative things in your life.

To feel powerless in the midst of your anguish. Continue reading 3 Secrets of Resilient People: TED Talk

Photo of the Week: Watching Broad-winged Hawks Growing Up

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Young Broad-wing hawk with fuzzy white down sits on a nest of twigs and dead leaves.

When you walk down the shady paved trail along the Huron River, you can hear water rushing by, the sound of Indigo Buntings singing in the distance, and muffled conversations of couples as they stroll down the trail.

Unless you listen carefully, you might not recognize the sounds of a family far above you, about 75 feet up, in the forest canopy.

A family that’s taken over an abandoned squirrel nest in the forks of a mature cottonwood tree. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Watching Broad-winged Hawks Growing Up

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