Alice, Robert, and WordPress
Prologue – WordPress Alice and Robert are my father’s parents. They never knew what WordPress was. My grandfather’s technical sophistication ended in turning on the screen of the desktop my father had purchased for him years ago. But as they crossed into their 90s, WordPress would come to be instrumental in their lives and mine. WordPress found me in 2009. A good friend said I needed to learn this new thing that could “change our lives”. Their partner was using it as a Virtual Assistant…and she worked from home full time! Technology interested me from an early age. I was inspired by the works of Aldous Huxley, the Beatniks, and Magick, as well as the science fiction of Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. The moment I was able to install WordPress and create a functional website in five minutes without any coding knowledge, it felt like a whole new world had opened up and we now had the power to shape it how we wanted. That same week, I built my first WordPress site for someone else. Like a friend who can’t help but show off their newest card trick, I was eager to demonstrate my “website-building skills” to…
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