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"What's it like to be Retired?"
Don't Worry: Vote!
10 Reasons Why I would STILL join a Teachers’ Union
10 Takeaways from LibTech 2017
10 Tech Skills Needed for Working in a Digital World
10 Terrible Budget Cuts
10 things I'm thankful for this past week
12 Takeaways from Gen Con 2018
15 Fun Things about My Daughter's wedding
5 Cool Tech Toys
5 reasons I hate Windows 10 already
5 Things I Don't Miss about my IPhone
5 things I learned visiting Thunder Bay
6 Cool Tech Toys that Make Life Easier
7 Excuses for not blogging: I’m too busy writing!!
A Letter from My Aunt Jeanne
A Rant on Visual Clutter on the Web --Don't Frustrate Your Reader
A Traveler’s Tale: Comparing Hotels
Ant Smasher: Not Free, Not Fun, and Not Fair!
Apps for Seniors, PART ONE
Apps for the Holidays
Are you Registered to Vote?
Attack of Bloatware and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs): Why “Bundling” add-ons and “Free software” isn’t such a good deal for consumers
Back to School
Back to School Preparations Interrupted by Death
Back to the Future: Cherie Gets an iPhone (Again)
Back to Work—the Writing Teacher Returns!
Becoming a Writer: Writing my First Short Story
Blue Lights and Sleep: Is Late night work on your PC keeping you awake?
Building & Branding Your Group Online
Cedar Falls, Iowa: A City of Writers
Cherie's 12 Concerns about Iowa's Virtual Schools, Part One
Cherie's Top Ten Lists for Heading Back to School....
Concerns about K-12 Online Learning, Part Two
Decluttering Strategies
Digital Downside
Digital Overload
Digital Paradox
Don’t ask me, “Do you know about the internet?”
Drama in Minnesota
Endings and Beginnings: the sale of our house
Facebook, Politics, and the Resistance to You Know Who
Faith, Friendship and Fabric Softener: Lessons from Wallpaper Removal
Falling into Medicare
Five Steps to Preserve Family Photos
Five Takeaways about the LWV Forum
From Caretaker to Patient
Geeky Grandma goes to Gen Con!
Geeky Grandma Goes to Muckrack
Geeky Grandma Goes to the State Fair
Gifts for Geek Kids
Gifts for Geeks, part two: Gifts for the Grown up Geeks
Gifts for Valentine's Day without Clutter
Google Maps, New construction and Our Reliance on GPS
High Tech and Low Tech Birthday Gifts
Highlights of CWW17
How I discovered Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer
Iowa's Forgotten Literary Legacy: Ruth Suckow and "A Rural Community"
It Started with a Business Card
It Started with a Business Card, Part 2
It's all about Customer Service!
It's been a "Flu" Christmas
Lessons in Caretaking, Take Two
Lessons Learned from Building my Website/Blog so Far
Lessons learned from Caretaking
Life in the age of the Pandemic: Could you live without the internet?
Love to Read?
Mamas, Don’t Give your Kids Smartphones!
Memories and Memorial Day
My Apple iPhone Tantrum: a Blog Post for January 24, 2016
My Experience as a Union Member
Nine Strategies for Writing Teachers
Now we’re learning: My first year of teaching
Our One Year Anniversary
Our Strange Love/Hate Affair with Technology
Part Two--How Technology Has Changed the Way we Teach
Posting Online Reviews of Products
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Reflecting on mobile technology
Reflecting on my Project: Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer, and My Mother, Charlotte & Cats
Reflecting on my “new life” since retirement
Reflections from Hanging Out with a Three Year Old
Reflections on "Corny Affirmations"
Reflections on Big Data Generated by Online Learning Tools
Reflections on Gen Con 2017
Reflections on my Grandsons Playing on my iPad and old iPhone ("Grandma, it's loading!")
Reflections on our Nancy Price Weekend
Reflections on popular book titles, characters & themes
Reflections on the Perils, Protection and Promise of Trees
Rehabbing with the Echo Show 5
Resolve to Take care of your Computer, Files, and Photos
Retirement musings
Rituals of Memorial Day
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Signs of Spring
Signs you might be a retired teacher….
Six Lessons Learned from Working as a Substitute Teacher
Six Reasons to be Hopeful in the first 30 days of the new administration
So what have I done lately?
Social Media and Election Season Fatigue: Can’t we All Just Get Along on Facebook?
Spring clean your computer and digital devices
Spring into Fitness with Mobile Devices and Apps
Take Out the Digital Trash!
Takeaways from the 51st Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from the Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from The Woman's Hour
Takeaways on the Woman's Hour
Technology & Wrapping Up the Semester
Technology and Children: One in Three Babies Has Used a Mobile Device Before the Age of One
Ten reasons it’s better to be a writer today than 100 years ago
Ten Reasons to LOVE Week 15
Ten Reasons to Vote
Ten take-aways from the 2016 Cedar Falls Christian Writers’ Workshop
Ten Takeaways from "Cedar Falls: City of Writers, Speakers, and Thinkers."
Ten Takeaways from Our Blogging Workshop
Ten things about Going to Winona
Ten Tips to Make your Recuperation from Surgery Better!
The "Ruff, Ruff" Draft
The 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Annual Ritual of Sending and Receiving Christmas Letters and Cards
The box of Books Arrives
The Echo Show 5: Fun and Functional
The Hard Work of Revision
The Last First Week
THE POWER OF HABITS AND RITUALS
Thoughts on the Pandemic and this awkward gift of time
Time for a Tech TuneUp
Top Eleven things I have learned about being a Grandma
Top Ten Lessons Learned Babysitting My Two Grandsons
Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate 2020
Top Ten Signs you’re a Grandma
Top Ten Thoughts of This Tired Teacher at Midterm
Traveling with Apps
Turning in My Keys
Using Amazon's Create Space: becoming a published author in 2016
Wearable Technology: From Active Link to Lumo Lift
Why I Voted for Hillary Clinton
Working with Dual Monitors
Wrapping up the Cedar Falls Authors Festival
Wrapping Up the CFAF
Wrapping up the Semester: Getting Ready for Finals
Write About Iowa
You can’t go home again – but you can visit!
Update your email to Gmail
It All Started with a Date
Blogging Tips & Tricks
Infographic from ConstantContact -- Email Marketing
More Digital Versions of Print Publications Using Apps like Issuu
Three Options to Follow Multiple Blogs: RSS button, Bloglovin' and Feedly
Blogging Workshop
Cherie's short fiction
Revisiting Aquidneck Island: 30 years later
Write about Iowa
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2012
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2013
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2014
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2015
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2016
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2017
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2018
Cherie's Technology Presentations
Dargan's Tech Jargon: What does it mean?
Great Writers & Their Blogs
How to use Google Apps
iPad Apps & Helps
Mobile Technology
Social Media
Technology Habits
Technology Trends
Tools for Writers
About Me
Contact
Search This Site
Cherie's Geeky Grandma Blog
Home
Blog Posts for Geeky Grandma
"What's it like to be Retired?"
Don't Worry: Vote!
10 Reasons Why I would STILL join a Teachers’ Union
10 Takeaways from LibTech 2017
10 Tech Skills Needed for Working in a Digital World
10 Terrible Budget Cuts
10 things I'm thankful for this past week
12 Takeaways from Gen Con 2018
15 Fun Things about My Daughter's wedding
5 Cool Tech Toys
5 reasons I hate Windows 10 already
5 Things I Don't Miss about my IPhone
5 things I learned visiting Thunder Bay
6 Cool Tech Toys that Make Life Easier
7 Excuses for not blogging: I’m too busy writing!!
A Letter from My Aunt Jeanne
A Rant on Visual Clutter on the Web --Don't Frustrate Your Reader
A Traveler’s Tale: Comparing Hotels
Ant Smasher: Not Free, Not Fun, and Not Fair!
Apps for Seniors, PART ONE
Apps for the Holidays
Are you Registered to Vote?
Attack of Bloatware and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs): Why “Bundling” add-ons and “Free software” isn’t such a good deal for consumers
Back to School
Back to School Preparations Interrupted by Death
Back to the Future: Cherie Gets an iPhone (Again)
Back to Work—the Writing Teacher Returns!
Becoming a Writer: Writing my First Short Story
Blue Lights and Sleep: Is Late night work on your PC keeping you awake?
Building & Branding Your Group Online
Cedar Falls, Iowa: A City of Writers
Cherie's 12 Concerns about Iowa's Virtual Schools, Part One
Cherie's Top Ten Lists for Heading Back to School....
Concerns about K-12 Online Learning, Part Two
Decluttering Strategies
Digital Downside
Digital Overload
Digital Paradox
Don’t ask me, “Do you know about the internet?”
Drama in Minnesota
Endings and Beginnings: the sale of our house
Facebook, Politics, and the Resistance to You Know Who
Faith, Friendship and Fabric Softener: Lessons from Wallpaper Removal
Falling into Medicare
Five Steps to Preserve Family Photos
Five Takeaways about the LWV Forum
From Caretaker to Patient
Geeky Grandma goes to Gen Con!
Geeky Grandma Goes to Muckrack
Geeky Grandma Goes to the State Fair
Gifts for Geek Kids
Gifts for Geeks, part two: Gifts for the Grown up Geeks
Gifts for Valentine's Day without Clutter
Google Maps, New construction and Our Reliance on GPS
High Tech and Low Tech Birthday Gifts
Highlights of CWW17
How I discovered Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer
Iowa's Forgotten Literary Legacy: Ruth Suckow and "A Rural Community"
It Started with a Business Card
It Started with a Business Card, Part 2
It's all about Customer Service!
It's been a "Flu" Christmas
Lessons in Caretaking, Take Two
Lessons Learned from Building my Website/Blog so Far
Lessons learned from Caretaking
Life in the age of the Pandemic: Could you live without the internet?
Love to Read?
Mamas, Don’t Give your Kids Smartphones!
Memories and Memorial Day
My Apple iPhone Tantrum: a Blog Post for January 24, 2016
My Experience as a Union Member
Nine Strategies for Writing Teachers
Now we’re learning: My first year of teaching
Our One Year Anniversary
Our Strange Love/Hate Affair with Technology
Part Two--How Technology Has Changed the Way we Teach
Posting Online Reviews of Products
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Reflecting on mobile technology
Reflecting on my Project: Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer, and My Mother, Charlotte & Cats
Reflecting on my “new life” since retirement
Reflections from Hanging Out with a Three Year Old
Reflections on "Corny Affirmations"
Reflections on Big Data Generated by Online Learning Tools
Reflections on Gen Con 2017
Reflections on my Grandsons Playing on my iPad and old iPhone ("Grandma, it's loading!")
Reflections on our Nancy Price Weekend
Reflections on popular book titles, characters & themes
Reflections on the Perils, Protection and Promise of Trees
Rehabbing with the Echo Show 5
Resolve to Take care of your Computer, Files, and Photos
Retirement musings
Rituals of Memorial Day
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Signs of Spring
Signs you might be a retired teacher….
Six Lessons Learned from Working as a Substitute Teacher
Six Reasons to be Hopeful in the first 30 days of the new administration
So what have I done lately?
Social Media and Election Season Fatigue: Can’t we All Just Get Along on Facebook?
Spring clean your computer and digital devices
Spring into Fitness with Mobile Devices and Apps
Take Out the Digital Trash!
Takeaways from the 51st Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from the Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from The Woman's Hour
Takeaways on the Woman's Hour
Technology & Wrapping Up the Semester
Technology and Children: One in Three Babies Has Used a Mobile Device Before the Age of One
Ten reasons it’s better to be a writer today than 100 years ago
Ten Reasons to LOVE Week 15
Ten Reasons to Vote
Ten take-aways from the 2016 Cedar Falls Christian Writers’ Workshop
Ten Takeaways from "Cedar Falls: City of Writers, Speakers, and Thinkers."
Ten Takeaways from Our Blogging Workshop
Ten things about Going to Winona
Ten Tips to Make your Recuperation from Surgery Better!
The "Ruff, Ruff" Draft
The 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Annual Ritual of Sending and Receiving Christmas Letters and Cards
The box of Books Arrives
The Echo Show 5: Fun and Functional
The Hard Work of Revision
The Last First Week
THE POWER OF HABITS AND RITUALS
Thoughts on the Pandemic and this awkward gift of time
Time for a Tech TuneUp
Top Eleven things I have learned about being a Grandma
Top Ten Lessons Learned Babysitting My Two Grandsons
Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate 2020
Top Ten Signs you’re a Grandma
Top Ten Thoughts of This Tired Teacher at Midterm
Traveling with Apps
Turning in My Keys
Using Amazon's Create Space: becoming a published author in 2016
Wearable Technology: From Active Link to Lumo Lift
Why I Voted for Hillary Clinton
Working with Dual Monitors
Wrapping up the Cedar Falls Authors Festival
Wrapping Up the CFAF
Wrapping up the Semester: Getting Ready for Finals
Write About Iowa
You can’t go home again – but you can visit!
Update your email to Gmail
It All Started with a Date
Blogging Tips & Tricks
Infographic from ConstantContact -- Email Marketing
More Digital Versions of Print Publications Using Apps like Issuu
Three Options to Follow Multiple Blogs: RSS button, Bloglovin' and Feedly
Blogging Workshop
Cherie's short fiction
Revisiting Aquidneck Island: 30 years later
Write about Iowa
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2012
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2013
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2014
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2015
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2016
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2017
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2018
Cherie's Technology Presentations
Dargan's Tech Jargon: What does it mean?
Great Writers & Their Blogs
How to use Google Apps
iPad Apps & Helps
Mobile Technology
Social Media
Technology Habits
Technology Trends
Tools for Writers
About Me
Contact
Search This Site
More
Home
Blog Posts for Geeky Grandma
"What's it like to be Retired?"
Don't Worry: Vote!
10 Reasons Why I would STILL join a Teachers’ Union
10 Takeaways from LibTech 2017
10 Tech Skills Needed for Working in a Digital World
10 Terrible Budget Cuts
10 things I'm thankful for this past week
12 Takeaways from Gen Con 2018
15 Fun Things about My Daughter's wedding
5 Cool Tech Toys
5 reasons I hate Windows 10 already
5 Things I Don't Miss about my IPhone
5 things I learned visiting Thunder Bay
6 Cool Tech Toys that Make Life Easier
7 Excuses for not blogging: I’m too busy writing!!
A Letter from My Aunt Jeanne
A Rant on Visual Clutter on the Web --Don't Frustrate Your Reader
A Traveler’s Tale: Comparing Hotels
Ant Smasher: Not Free, Not Fun, and Not Fair!
Apps for Seniors, PART ONE
Apps for the Holidays
Are you Registered to Vote?
Attack of Bloatware and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs): Why “Bundling” add-ons and “Free software” isn’t such a good deal for consumers
Back to School
Back to School Preparations Interrupted by Death
Back to the Future: Cherie Gets an iPhone (Again)
Back to Work—the Writing Teacher Returns!
Becoming a Writer: Writing my First Short Story
Blue Lights and Sleep: Is Late night work on your PC keeping you awake?
Building & Branding Your Group Online
Cedar Falls, Iowa: A City of Writers
Cherie's 12 Concerns about Iowa's Virtual Schools, Part One
Cherie's Top Ten Lists for Heading Back to School....
Concerns about K-12 Online Learning, Part Two
Decluttering Strategies
Digital Downside
Digital Overload
Digital Paradox
Don’t ask me, “Do you know about the internet?”
Drama in Minnesota
Endings and Beginnings: the sale of our house
Facebook, Politics, and the Resistance to You Know Who
Faith, Friendship and Fabric Softener: Lessons from Wallpaper Removal
Falling into Medicare
Five Steps to Preserve Family Photos
Five Takeaways about the LWV Forum
From Caretaker to Patient
Geeky Grandma goes to Gen Con!
Geeky Grandma Goes to Muckrack
Geeky Grandma Goes to the State Fair
Gifts for Geek Kids
Gifts for Geeks, part two: Gifts for the Grown up Geeks
Gifts for Valentine's Day without Clutter
Google Maps, New construction and Our Reliance on GPS
High Tech and Low Tech Birthday Gifts
Highlights of CWW17
How I discovered Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer
Iowa's Forgotten Literary Legacy: Ruth Suckow and "A Rural Community"
It Started with a Business Card
It Started with a Business Card, Part 2
It's all about Customer Service!
It's been a "Flu" Christmas
Lessons in Caretaking, Take Two
Lessons Learned from Building my Website/Blog so Far
Lessons learned from Caretaking
Life in the age of the Pandemic: Could you live without the internet?
Love to Read?
Mamas, Don’t Give your Kids Smartphones!
Memories and Memorial Day
My Apple iPhone Tantrum: a Blog Post for January 24, 2016
My Experience as a Union Member
Nine Strategies for Writing Teachers
Now we’re learning: My first year of teaching
Our One Year Anniversary
Our Strange Love/Hate Affair with Technology
Part Two--How Technology Has Changed the Way we Teach
Posting Online Reviews of Products
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Protect data when using public Wi-Fi: Use a VPN!
Reflecting on mobile technology
Reflecting on my Project: Ruth Suckow, Iowa Writer, and My Mother, Charlotte & Cats
Reflecting on my “new life” since retirement
Reflections from Hanging Out with a Three Year Old
Reflections on "Corny Affirmations"
Reflections on Big Data Generated by Online Learning Tools
Reflections on Gen Con 2017
Reflections on my Grandsons Playing on my iPad and old iPhone ("Grandma, it's loading!")
Reflections on our Nancy Price Weekend
Reflections on popular book titles, characters & themes
Reflections on the Perils, Protection and Promise of Trees
Rehabbing with the Echo Show 5
Resolve to Take care of your Computer, Files, and Photos
Retirement musings
Rituals of Memorial Day
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Secure your Family with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Signs of Spring
Signs you might be a retired teacher….
Six Lessons Learned from Working as a Substitute Teacher
Six Reasons to be Hopeful in the first 30 days of the new administration
So what have I done lately?
Social Media and Election Season Fatigue: Can’t we All Just Get Along on Facebook?
Spring clean your computer and digital devices
Spring into Fitness with Mobile Devices and Apps
Take Out the Digital Trash!
Takeaways from the 51st Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from the Annual Meeting of the RSMA
Takeaways from The Woman's Hour
Takeaways on the Woman's Hour
Technology & Wrapping Up the Semester
Technology and Children: One in Three Babies Has Used a Mobile Device Before the Age of One
Ten reasons it’s better to be a writer today than 100 years ago
Ten Reasons to LOVE Week 15
Ten Reasons to Vote
Ten take-aways from the 2016 Cedar Falls Christian Writers’ Workshop
Ten Takeaways from "Cedar Falls: City of Writers, Speakers, and Thinkers."
Ten Takeaways from Our Blogging Workshop
Ten things about Going to Winona
Ten Tips to Make your Recuperation from Surgery Better!
The "Ruff, Ruff" Draft
The 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Annual Ritual of Sending and Receiving Christmas Letters and Cards
The box of Books Arrives
The Echo Show 5: Fun and Functional
The Hard Work of Revision
The Last First Week
THE POWER OF HABITS AND RITUALS
Thoughts on the Pandemic and this awkward gift of time
Time for a Tech TuneUp
Top Eleven things I have learned about being a Grandma
Top Ten Lessons Learned Babysitting My Two Grandsons
Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate 2020
Top Ten Signs you’re a Grandma
Top Ten Thoughts of This Tired Teacher at Midterm
Traveling with Apps
Turning in My Keys
Using Amazon's Create Space: becoming a published author in 2016
Wearable Technology: From Active Link to Lumo Lift
Why I Voted for Hillary Clinton
Working with Dual Monitors
Wrapping up the Cedar Falls Authors Festival
Wrapping Up the CFAF
Wrapping up the Semester: Getting Ready for Finals
Write About Iowa
You can’t go home again – but you can visit!
Update your email to Gmail
It All Started with a Date
Blogging Tips & Tricks
Infographic from ConstantContact -- Email Marketing
More Digital Versions of Print Publications Using Apps like Issuu
Three Options to Follow Multiple Blogs: RSS button, Bloglovin' and Feedly
Blogging Workshop
Cherie's short fiction
Revisiting Aquidneck Island: 30 years later
Write about Iowa
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2012
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2013
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2014
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2015
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2016
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2017
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2018
Cherie's Technology Presentations
Dargan's Tech Jargon: What does it mean?
Great Writers & Their Blogs
How to use Google Apps
iPad Apps & Helps
Mobile Technology
Social Media
Technology Habits
Technology Trends
Tools for Writers
About Me
Contact
Search This Site
Cherie's Technology Columns, 2014
These columns appeared in the Waterloo Courier's Cedar Valley Business Monthly.
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