Wikis aren’t the answer to everything, but I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the medium over the last year. More important than the techical functionality and the user-challenging interfaces is the philosophy. It speaks very much to a culture of trust and responsibility for others, a strong counterpoint to the culture of fear we live [...]
I-Tunes
I have a theory that i-tunes makes a ton of money from people my age who discover that they can get their hands– ears– on tunes that take them back to the days of Blondi and Dexi’s Midnight Runners, and then randomly click “buy song” on various memories. Such access is both a blessing and [...]
Complete Heaven
Tonight- exhausted- the boys and I fell onto Carter’s bed to read Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. I was so tired I could barely make out the words on the page. While I read, Carter played with Archie’s foot and Archie chuckled.
After three chapters, we turned out the lights and Carter wrapped my arm [...]
My Grandmother in a book
I got this book from Chinaberry, actually, but they didn’t want us as affiliates. It explains all the things my mom’s mom took quite seriously, that I didn’t quite get.
In a textbook size book, she lists the finer points of housekeeping, for example, how many different types of cloth towels a kitchen requires, that you [...]