TJM: Total Jo Jo Move

2022 ASAP Book Reviews If you’ve read my book reviews before, you’ll know I try to make them As Short As Possible! Unfortunately I let this slip on my to do list until almost the end of 2023. These will be even shorter than usual, because I'm about a month away from writing my 2023 book reviews.  GOAL = 28 READ = 19   It feels great to accomplish a goal you set for yourself, or a challenge among your friends. However, it is also liberating to excuse yourself from not hitting a number on a list. 2022 was the year I finished grad school! I read bits & pieces of at least 7 other books for school, not for fun, but I enjoyed a lot of the content and I learned a ton last year. Other things I did to strengthen my mind in 2022:  Went to therapy sessions Took classes in effective communication, leadership, and user research Wrote a 31-page Capstone research paper on the user experience of Airbnb for travel nurses Facilitated community building activities for my coworkers Plann...

Puerto Rico, isla hermosa Beautiful island, lovely island *queue Rita Moreno and/or Ariana DeBose singing "America" from either of the West Side Story movies. Here is a list of some  famous people   from PR, in case you didn’t realize. I’ve had this drafted since the day we got back in mid-December (last vacay of 20222!). In order not to delay it as long as I did for Ireland , I’ll share it now, while I’m in the Auckland airport getting ready to fly over to Sydney to continue my first trip of 2023 :)   A lot of the pictures really are worth a thousand words, so you can also just scroll through and look at all of them if you’re not feeling like reading! I hope my travel stories help you have a great Puerto Rico trip, or if you’ve been there before, you can give me tips for my next visit there. I will 110% be back there as soon as possible, and I certainly wouldn’t mind living there for a short time! I know there are some political and economic issues that I’m not super inf...