{"id":1470,"date":"2022-10-19T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/?page_id=1470"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:40:48","slug":"marys-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/?page_id=1470","title":{"rendered":"Mary’s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Current projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out my current project on Boom! I am creating decks to assist students with Confusing Words<\/a>. Words like ant\/aunt, accept\/except, buy\/by\/bye, and more. If you have any confusing words you would like included in one of the decks, submit them through the Customize link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who am I?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked with schools from 1995-2020 assisting with the use of technology to promote teaching and learning. Prior to 1995, I worked for a variety of companies as a programmer and end-user trainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, my husband retired and we relocated from St. Louis, MO to Lido Beach, NY with my mother. The plan was for me to continue to provide technology training to teachers (in-person and online) as well as teach online. Like everyone else, my life changed drastically in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic was not the only issue for us. I was also diagnosed with cancer in January, 2020, had surgery in February, and went through my first round of chemo (April, 2020 – June, 2020). We did fine. Made it through. And let me say, do the cancer screenings! Colonoscopies, mammograms, etc. If caught early, cancer is beatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funny thing about having cancer is they continue to do tests after the chemo is over. Those tests caught my second cancer in April, 2022. So once again, I had another round of chemo (May, 2022 – July, 2022) as well as two surgeries. Once again, I will be going through additional testing. Hopefully there will not a third cancer diagnosis in my future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So where do I go from here? I am not ready to retire! I have decided to focus on building content to support curriculum using various technology apps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current projects Check out my current project on Boom! I am creating decks to assist students with Confusing Words. Words like ant\/aunt, accept\/except, buy\/by\/bye, and more. If you have any confusing words you would like included in one of the decks, submit them through the Customize link. Who am I? I worked with schools from<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P86fRc-nI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tishelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}