Kimberly Bailey Read

Kimberly Bailey Read

Kimberly Bailey Read is a writer with experience in web-content, research proposals, and academia. She has degrees in psychology, business, and education, which have facilitated her broad writing experience. She has written content for Verywell Mind on the topics of mental health and bipolar disorder. She has extensive writing and copyediting experience in research proposals. In her witty and sarcastic hat, she enjoys writing poetry with the occasional foray into op-ed. She lives in Florida with a menagerie of pets, including hubby, and has a serious addiction to sci-fi and fantasy literature.

SRAI Catalyst •

The Importance of File Naming Conventions

Who has gone back to files for an earlier submission and had to sort through dozens of documents with wild names to find the final version that was submitted? You found what you needed, so does it matter? The only reason to file or save a document is to retrieve it later. If retrieval is difficult or impossible, then the filing system isn’t doing its job. A system that hides information instead of surfacing it when needed is, at best, inefficient and, at worst, completely broken
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The Contents of Josephine’s Enormous Gray Bag

Ever had your ass groped by a felon? In my early twenties, I began a career in social work in Atlanta. One of my assignments involved delivering care packages to prisoners. I also worked with street prostitutes abused, worn-down by age 20, selling the only asset they had for $20. In an after-school program, I distributed meals for kids who had no other access to food, but I still wasn't prepared for spry, mischievous Josephine.