Lofi music is popular among students, office workers, remote workers, coders, basically anyone having to work or study at a computer. But anyone can access a vast library of music using the YouTube app on their phone, tablet, and smart TV. Go to YouTube, search "lofi + [keyword]" and there are endless offerings of...

Blog note: This is a new series called, Field Notes, which are seedling posts that focus on research topics of interest. The information listed here is a work in progress. Planted on February 16, 2025; Last updated April 26, 2026 As part of my Master of Public Health program, I've begun focusing on a research topic of...

Blog note: Last updated on February 15, 2026. I may come back and update this post as I continue to read more, learn more, and try out different ways to curate content on this blog. I first wrote about the idea of digital gardening when I launched my blog here on Pagecord. Recently, I took a deeper dive into what it...

February is Black History Month and in todays' Shutter Sunday, I share a photo of what some might consider a miracle, but actually has a long history in Las Vegas: gardening and farming. This photo is particularly significant as it is part of a garden patch in The Obodo Collective, an urban farm and community garden...

Earlier this month, I presented my first history of medicine (#histmed) conference poster at the MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2026 Joint Meeting. Though the conference was focused on medical librarianship, it offered an opportunity to highlight the region's medical history for colleagues who traveled to Las Vegas from across the West...

I take lots of photos whenever I have the opportunity to travel, but they often sit in my phone's album collecting digital dust. Is that even a thing? Likely not ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜. Either way, I've decided to dig into my photo album and look for some lovely gems to share on this blog. I'll try to share one photo each Sunday as...

Blog note: This is a new series called, Field Notes, which are seedling posts that focus on research topics of interest. The information listed here is a work in progress. Back in the summer of 2025, I started exploring the history of hospital and healthcare infrastructure in early Las Vegas. I caught the bug, while...

Blog note: Some links may contain spoilers, swoop and glide to each link at your own risk. Also, I may come back to this post and update it once I've gotten to that sweet 100% completion rate. It's time to say good-bye, for now... During the holidays I decided to get caught up on things I enjoy. I restarted my blog, did...

It’s 2026! Whew! It's 2026 and it feels like forever getting here. My 2026 started with rain, actually it started on New Year's Eve. We even had rain on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I really enjoy the rain, but most of my new years have been rain-free. So some rain is a welcome change and helps usher in the feeling...

Blog note: Last updated on January 25, 2026 In the past, I’d jump on a blog and begin tinkering, moving posts and pages around. Changing the color scheme, the theme, and eventually the font styles. Then I’d add lots of stuff, then delete lots of stuff, making subtle changes here and there until the look and feel was...

Blog note: This post was originally published on April 20, 2025 on my old blog, Healthy Scholarly Pursuits. This was my last blog post on HSP and explains why I took a hiatus. For a person who has struggled with being primed to fix every problem they encounter, I’ve learned that healing for me also means that when I...

Blog note: This post was originally published on March 31, 2025 on my old blog, Healthy Scholarly Pursuits. Monday, March 24 – Sunday, March 30 What did I do this week? This week was a return to normalcy in my class routines. Spring break is now in the rear view and so are my fleeting gaming sessions, hasta luego Fields...

Blog note: This post was originally published on March 29, 2025 on my old blog, Healthy Scholarly Pursuits. (Photo credit: Felix Mittermeier) Since the age of eighteen, I’ve worked in three different libraries: public, special, and academic. Libraries, specifically, public libraries served as a refuge for me and my...

Blog note: This post was originally published on March 12, 2025 on my old blog, Healthy Scholarly Pursuits. (Photo credit: Photo by Bob Krustev) I absolutely love coming across old blogs, you know, the ones that still exist on the internet, maybe they were published in the height of the blogosphere around the 2010s and...