The iPhone 4 is out and while mobile and tech gadget gurus will analyze its features, this 2-minute video describing the “Facetime” feature deserves the Oscar. The video pulls all the right heartstrings and makes the case for why you just have to buy your grandparents one of these NOW. From the Apple website:
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Today is International Walk to School Day–but not for some communities where walking and biking have been banned. Two recent news stories are discouraging on many levels, but do not represent the norm as more and more communities are, in fact, adopting alternatives to driving.
In Saratoga Springs, NY, a woman and her 12-year old son [...]
Plans change. But it can be powerful to work out a long term theme for your life as a way of grounding your current choices. Last week, I spoke with Pam Slim from Escape from Cubicle Nation about how to navigate my own situation–where my “escape” is involuntary–and came away with some great ideas.
Pam writes [...]
I could not resist taking a photo of half my garage this weekend as I realized we are seriously into cycling and running and taking our kids along.
Our latest addition to this collection is the blue dual baby jogger in the back which allows all 5 of us to go out at the same time.
We have a set of magnetic toys my kids play with–animals with interchangeable torsos, heads, and legs. Today we could not find the legs to the giraffe. Before I could begin searching for the missing pieces, my daughter simply placed the existing pieces on the train table in the “water” area and said, “the giraffe [...]
The transplanted shrub that bloomed when Sharon was born…blooms a month late this year and with a spectacularly colorful flower:
On Friday, we’re planning to load up the minivan and drive 600 miles to visit the grandparents. My Mom was going to come up to Boston in February, right after Marshall was born, but she fell and broke her hip and hasn’t had a chance to meet Marshall yet.
Planning a drive from Boston to Virginia [...]
The other night, as my wife went to a meeting–one of her rare opportunities to get out and do something for herself versus managing our three kids–I decided to take the kids to Costco to pick up a couple of critical resources we can’t run out of: dog food and Enfamil. 6pm to 8pm is [...]
Parents who tell parents of newborns to cherish these times as the best of their lives are seriously delusional. But, having been through this a couple of times before, I think it’s more a case of amnesia. We don’t remember much a few years later.
Maybe it is a result of sleep deprivation and the sleeping [...]