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All posts in December 2018

2018: The Year of Unexpected Beginnings

2018: The Year of Unexpected Beginnings

Posted on December 21, 2018July 22, 2020Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Money, Tech10 Replies

2018. What can I say, except wow. It was a year of many many unexpected beginnings, trials, and impact on my identity as a person. I said Yes to many things, and No to others, and being able to realize my boundaries and limitations have allowed me to find myself in situations that I couldn’t…

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On Facing Death, 7 Years Later

On Facing Death, 7 Years Later

Posted on December 7, 2018December 23, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Tech, Top Posts22 Replies

On December 7th, 2011, my family woke up before dawn and began getting ready to step out into the darkness.  My father, my mother, and I rode in relative silence on the 30 minute drive to Baltimore from our house.  Usually, there is traffic, but so early in the morning, there were barely any cars…

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Hiroko Nishimura

Hiroko Nishimura is an AWS Community Hero, technical instructor at LinkedIn Learning, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers.

She writes about her jarring transition to motherhood on Substack. Many posts are reposted on this blog as well under Tag: Substack. Looking for my Japanese posts?

She is a brain injury and brain surgery survivor, writing about dealing with adult Executive Dysfunction/ADHD.

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