Karen Kent Writes (a Lot!)

Karen has loved writing since childhood, when her passion produced a one-act play, part of a novel on robots, a few songs, and some teenage angst poetry. After college, she wrote and edited a company newsletter, managed IT operations for a daily newspaper, and eventually became a cybersecurity researcher and policy wonk. And she went back to college for a master’s degree in English (technical writing).

As a writer, Karen is best known for her incredible volume of high-quality cybersecurity standards, guidelines, articles, and other content. This includes writing that she and her colleague Matthew Smith publish through their joint venture, Trusted Cyber Annex.

Recently, she launched Puzzled.blog to share her enthusiasm for jigsaw puzzles, especially competitive speed puzzling, with others. And her latest project, called Everything Else (see below), is about…well, everything other than cybersecurity and jigsaw puzzles. 

Everything Else!

  • Stopping self-criticism

    I had an incredible revelation this morning. The constant soundtrack of self-criticism I hear all day, every day…never doing enough and never being enough…is actually the echoes of the narcissists who have criticized and hated me my entire life. Those family members, partners, and friends, most of whom have been out of my life for…

  • The entire country celebrates my dad’s birthday each year

    The entire country celebrates my dad’s birthday each year

    Today would have been my dad’s 101st birthday. Every year he had to remind us that all over town, people displayed their American flags to wish him a happy birthday (which happened to coincide with Flag Day). The ultimate dad joke! My dad grew up in the Great Depression. He dropped out of high school…