With all the buzz recently from Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua, Jennifer Moses, and others, about what parenting philosophy is appropriate for raising good kids, it’s difficult to figure out what’s right. Thankfully, one M.D. has a very simple answer. Dr. Meg Meeker, author of the new book “The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers, Reclaiming Our…
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What was going on with you in 1982? Many of you weren’t yet born. The rest of you probably had other things on your minds besides computers. I know that I did. I was many years away from purchasing my first thinking machine. But there was a number of individuals out there who had already…
An old goat like me can recall the old days. The WorldWide Web was there for anyone to use. All you needed was: An internet access account Server space A working knowledge of HTML An HTML editor An FTP client Well, all these years later, things have gotten considerably simpler. If you want to set…
To repeat myself yet another time, I LOVE cooking. Cooking allows one to be creative in a sense unlike any other. Sure, you have a recipe, but only the timid follow the directions to a tee. The rest of us EXPERIMENT! Today’s FamilyFirst pick is called Chocolate & Zucchini. Its author is English-speaking Parisian Clotilde…
You grew up with them. Well, if you’re forty or older, you grew up with them. I’m talking about 45’s, those discs of vinyl designed to be spun at precisely 45 revolutions per minute, while a needle traces its way towards the center and translates the grooves into music. And music from a 45 sounds…
As I write this piece, it’s Saturday morning, and I’m enjoying my traditional cup of French roast black. One of the qualities that make us true individuals is how we take our coffee. I’ve always felt that a good cup of coffee doesn’t need cream or sugar. Coffee is a huge part of our lives….
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Poor Richard lived in an era when it was possible to be neither. However, times have changed. It is virtually impossible to live today without borrowing money. An investment that most of us will make is a mortgage. And in the world of mortgages, the principle of caveat…
Do you enjoy flying? I have to tell you, I love settling back in a seat in a not-too-crowded airliner and just relaxing while the pilot throws me back in my seat with acceleration down that runway and into the air. Curiously, though, even though the aviation bug runs in my family (my father was…