Introducing Carrie Actually

Carrie Actually is a blog that explores a spectrum of topics from those that have been traditionally associated with women (the chic topics – fashion, art, beauty, literature) to those that have not been traditionally accessible to women (the geek topics – math, science, technology) and everything that falls in between (entertainment, food and drink, design). Making math and science accessible to women has been a topic I’ve been interested in for many years and I hope that this blog will further that cause by showing other women that they don’t have to live exclusively at one end of this spectrum or at the other. You can be well educated, tech savvy, and glamorous; you can have it all.

What’s in a name?

How did I arrive at the name Carrie Actually? Carrie is my first name. Actually is a word that I use far, far too much.

In college I was fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the Pixar studio. While having lunch on their campus, someone was talking about how their young daughter was still in the “actually” phase. That comment really stuck with me because I had never considered it a phase and I’ve obviously never grown out of it. This was only further reinforced when Google’s Webmaster Tools identified “actually” as one of the top keywords I was writing about (after Google did it’s best to exclude commonly used words in the English language) on another website I was writing.

The name Carrie Actually allows me to share with you everything that actually interests me: a full range of topics in the geek to chic spectrum.

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