Poem book

 Good news! My poem book is scheduled to be published by the end of the month (next week). I am excited! The skinny book will be interesting to read. I hope you enjoy it. A trip to Guyana will likely assist with marketing.

Writing prompt

I am writing this over a cup of tea. 

Wordpress prompt for today 6/23/2026: What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

There are lots of advice out there based on good and bad experiences in life (lessons learned). One of the lessons I would like to share is: you can accomplish significant goals (great things) if you take things step by step. This is the same as saying 'Rome wasn't built in a day.' Not so long ago, I decided that a professor/research job would be better for me. I thought through the steps/tasks needed to obtain my desired position ("reach for the stars") and completed task after task in pursuit of the goal.

 

Today June22

 Hero is a theme today. An inspiring song together with two movies.

Hero (the song) 

Good Deeds

The Spy Next Door 

 Both movies now available 'Free with Ads' on YouTube.

You may also find my playlist 'Difficult Times' useful (Hero is one of the selected songs). The playlist is available at: https://www.youtube.com/@FahmeenaOdettaMoore/playlists).

 

 

 

 

 

Update

 There are still a lot of information systems professor jobs. I am in the process of applying for positions.

I am willing to bet that I am not a typical candidate. I am starting my professor career with a lot of experience (I worked for years and years before deciding to complete a PhD). I am using a long form resume that provides lots of information on my experience. Some of the old jobs are on the resume. I think they add a lot.

(Curious about my experience? My main LinkedIn profile provides good information. I even mention the experimental work I did at an old job - specifically a special task to work on requirements from the Testing/Quality Assurance Group. It is included in a paper. The training program was experimental but I was given more experimental work than others. Note that I also did well at experimental tasks at another employer.)

The work to publish my papers

 I was on a break for quite a while. During my break, I decided to work on publishing some of the papers I prepared while at school. I knew there were new ideas in some of my papers that would be accepted by academic journals. I started working feverishly. I completed quite a lot of papers.

It turns out that I had to make major adjustments to some papers. In some cases, I re-prepared a paper by meeting the guidelines/directions using different selections or topics. Below is an example of a paper that I adjusted. The paper is challenging to publish because of the need to draw interesting conclusions or report something substantial from three articles. The paper was on organizational structure.

Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tncc3SQJcAmZdtP5_Djp6VId7T1iXZz/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102188806763555458254&rtpof=true&sd=true

Improved version for publishing: https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2025/09/past-paper-submitted-to-journal.html

I spent hours looking through journal articles. It was a lot of work and I learned a lot. 

Testing honesty

 I found an interesting writing prompt in X:

 

 

 

 

 

 If I became invisible for a day, I would first want to ensure/confirm that I am invisible to the average person. That would be interesting to do. I also thought of what I would want to do with the "power." I would want to test the honesty or trustworthiness of people I know. I could invite the carpenter or plumber over to see what they would do. I would leave the door open for the worker to come in to fix a problem/issue. It would be nice to be invisible. I would not have to worry about him or her attacking me.

 

Incident

 Photos from the emergency room are included in the Facebook blog.

This FlashbackFriday, I remember an incident at Watooka Day School that resulted in an emergency visit to the hospital. I was playing with swings (in the playground on the school grounds) when one of the swings hit my head. There was blood. I believe the cut required stitches.

When driving around Linden a few years ago, we stopped at the school for a short time. Everything looked different. I didn't see the swings.