Tweet Today I clicked on the list of friend’s birthdays on Facebook like I do every day, partly to wish friends and loved ones a great birthday, and partly to be reminded that at some point four years ago I met someone for five minutes and accepted their friend request. Except that today when I [...]

Tweet Monday was the official launch day of my first book, Raising Digital Families For Dummies, and it was a day I will never forget thanks to all of you.  Since I can’t track you all down and send you thank you notes – and the book is a tech title after all – I want to [...]

Tweet When I found out that I was pregnant with Emma, the first thing I did was call my husband at work to let him know that the test I’d taken three days earlier was wrong.  The second thing I did was call my friend M.  She had been told by a handful of doctors [...]

Tweet Yesterday I went searching for a sketch pad that has followed me from small town Pennsylvania to Washington, DC, to London to Philly then back to DC, filled with poems, random ramblings, and a list of boys I had kissed.  One of my prized possessions, it spent years on various bookshelves, snuggled oddly next [...]

Tweet Last weekend I sat in church and listened to my pastor describe the restoration of his 130 year old home.  His account was what one would expect from a long-neglected house more than a century old: warped floor boards, cracked plaster, electrical systems needing to be replaced.  As construction progressed, he took comfort in [...]

Tweet I did it.  I finally bought my first new car (mmmm, breathe that new car smell in…) and as promised, I’m introducing you to her here.  You all followed along as I checked out the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder with a one week test drive in February, and those of you who follow me on [...]

Tweet I’ve been avoiding writing anything about the Steubenville rape case – a Facebook post, a tweet, a comment on a blog post – partly because I hadn’t taken enough time to know the details of the case to do so intelligently, and partly because I wanted to wait for confirmation that it was appropriate [...]

Tweet Yesterday I came home from a meeting to find that everyone on the planet had emailed me during the hour and a half that I was away from my desk.  During the frantic responding to the emails, I came across one that was too good to be read in that chaotic moment.  You know [...]