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Dear Karina: Using The Internet To Connect With Young Children

I’m back in here — I’ve been working on my own personal history in relative silence for a while, and I think I had some breakthroughs in developing a framework that helps me — and everyone, really — put their own personal history in the hands of others. A recent commercial by Google’s Chrome browser reminded me of this — I’m linking to it below, it’s...

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Playlist of My (Her) Life

Tonight I did a nice thing for my wife — she’s pregnant, she’s tired and she’s seen a bit too much of my precocious daughter and her too-often-poopy diapers. I had some Marriott Rewards points, so off she went to the local oh-so-swanky Courtyard for a night on her own. Somehow I successfully fed, bathed and clothed our little daughter and was desperately trying to distract her from...

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Memory Monday: Music

I just returned from the first “spin class” I’ve done at my gym in more than 3 years. If you’re not familiar with the term “spin class,” just think of about 20 people on stationary bikes VOLUNTARILY turning a knob that makes it more and more difficult to turn the pedals, VOLUNTARILY going up an imaginary hill, all in the name of fitness. I think “spin class”...

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Technology’s Good Side

For the most part (my apologies to indigenous tribes of the Amazon that may have happened upon my blog), we are a Wired World. There’s an amusing video circulating these days showing Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric struggling with the beginnings of the Internet Age in 1994, and it only serves to illustrate how far this medium has come in the lifetime of a high school senior. There are obvious goods...