
Weapons of choice: a sweet smile, a
sharp wit and an HK P7 M8
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Who is Deb Shinder? Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a former police officer/criminal justice instructor who now makes her living as an IT author, trainer and speaker. She has written or contributed to 26 books, published over 600 articles and has been living online, along with her husband Tom (whom she met via the Internet), since the mid-1990s.
In her spare time (yeah, right), Deb likes to play piano, swim in the pool or relax in the spa, take digital photographs or just sit and stare out her office window at the lake. She reads fifty or more novels each year and also enjoys watching an extensive collection of DVD movies and recording her favorite TV programs with her media center PC. Deb dabbled in politics in the 1980s, serving as a city councilmember and public safety commissioner for the City of Seagoville, and as an executive officer of the Seagoville Chamber of Commerce. She has recently begun to get interested in municipal politics again in her new Dallas 'burb and has started a new blog dedicated mostly to local political and economic development issues. Deb and Tom now live just east of Dallas, TX on the shores of beautiful Lake Ray Hubbard, and she has two grown kids: Kristen (who's in the Navy and currently stationed in San Diego following a deployment in Afghanistan) and Kristoffer (a graduate of the University of Dallas who teaches chess and participates in the family business as a technical writer). The family also includes two "grandcats," along with lots of feathered friends who drop by for dinner frequently. Each summer, a family of barn swallows make a nest in the eaves of their balcony, and Deb and Tom have the privilege of watching a brood of baby swallows grow up and fledge - often getting to help out by putting the babies back in the nest when they fall out.
I am the luckiest person I know. I haven't ever won the lottery (yet), but in addition to being born to the best parents in the world, marrying the greatest guy in the world (okay, that one took three tries but it was worth it), and giving birth to the two most fantastic kids in the world, I have the best job(s) in the world and live in the most beautiful place in the world (in my opinion, and that's the one that counts). Life is good.
The Kids
You can
see more pictures of the Shinder family on Deb and Tom's personal homepage at
www.shinder.net.
TEXLINKS
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I support the reelection of John Harper as Mayor of Rowlett
Deb receives Microsoft MVP
again for 2009
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NON-STANDARD
Warning: This page and its subpages may at times contain opinions, information and observations that are likely to offend or even outrage some folks, and (I hope) amuse or even inspire others. Oh well. Warning: Intelligent discourse is always welcome; flames and hate mail aren't. If you'd like to try to change my mind, feel free -- but be forewarned that I just might try to change yours in return. Warning: Above all, don't forget Rule #1: Never enter a battle of wits unarmed. -----------------------
SOME OF MY
Computer Networking Essentials
With Tom:
With Jim Boyce:
Favorite
Nelson DeMille Orson Scott Card John Nance Stephen King Neal Stephenson David Hagberg John Sandford Jeffery Deaver Ridley Pearson Dean Koontz Tess Gerritson
Recommended
Lone Star My
Grandfather's Son Guns, Germs
and Steel
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