The book I’m editing - Women in Technical Communication - has a publication time frame: end of Feb 2026, which is awesome. Watch xmlpress.com for prepublication purchase.

And now we’ve reached the part of the process where I’m sure not a single soul is going to buy it.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Big big big big day for me. So much work to get here.

I sent the manuscript for the Women in Technical Communication to the publisher this morning. 7 months after I posted the first call for writers, 69 international women submitted their stories of their careers - the first generation of women

My new book is out! If you communicate in the business world, this is the book for you. a.co/d/7eeBcfo #techcomm #engineering

In case you don’t know, I’m editing a book called “Women in Technical Communication” - which is an international anthology of women telling their story of being in the field. It’s also looking like the first living history of the

Call for writers!

Technical Communication as a field has changed over the last 50 years. Women in Technical Communication is an anthology of the self-told stories of women who did the technical communication work from 1975 to today.

Call for writers!
Technical Communication as a field has changed over the last 50 years. Women in Technical Communication is an anthology of the self-told stories of women who did the technical communication work from 1975 to today.

I don’t think I’ve shared that I also write sometimes. Here’s a link to a thing I wrote. More can be found there: A woman’s body medium.com/@sharonburto...

Been a decent day. Graded baby engineer papers, did some unpaid adjunct U work (again), then planted more snow peas and sugar peas seeds. That means I should have another set about a month behind the current group, extending the crop several weeks. Inland so cal means I have a year round veg garden.

My sister works in a dementia/TBI place as a social worker. She finds deep meaning in the work. Today, she shared this on the family chat…

Musk killed the deal to keep the government open.

Dictionary.com
noun: oligarchy; plural noun: oligarchies
a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
a country governed by an oligarchy.
"the English aristocratic oligarchy of the 19th century"

My library card was so old, it didn’t work in the library website. Not an issue because my system didn’t use Libby. Except this week, they finally are part of the system.

Yesterday I got a shiny new card and I feel all the powers.

For those outside the US, to get a scale of just how big the US is: talking to a coworker who lives outside London today. In 10 hours, she can drive to the Alps. Switzerland.

Andy and I are binge watching 6 Feet Under in the evenings. I saw season 3 on in the original showing. He’s never seen it. It’s as brilliant as I remember. He’s shocked at just how brilliant it is.