I used to overthink food more than I should have. Not in a serious way, but in the daily sense of trying to get it right, something healthy, something filling, something the kids might actually eat, something that didn’t take…
Yesterday morning, I lost my patience. It was my birthday, and it wasn’t how I wanted to start the day. Maya was sitting on the stairs, calling out, “Daddy, daddy…” over and over again. She wasn’t upset. She wasn’t doing…
Artificial intelligence is changing how we trust what we see online. A look at the rise of AI-generated emotional content, Facebook engagement bait, and why so many elderly users are falling for it.
About six weeks ago, I found out I have a fairly significant shoulder injury. The current belief is that it’s a torn labrum, although even after two MRIs, they still aren’t completely certain about the extent of the damage. What…
Watching and listening to the news in front of children isn’t something I gave much thought to over the years. That changed when my third child was born, with a sixteen-year gap between her and my next oldest. One of…
I started writing this piece a couple of years ago and then stopped. At the time, I was not sure how to say what I was feeling without sounding angry, and I did not want anger to be the loudest…
I remember, back around the turn of the century, hearing Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann. At the time, it felt clever. Insightful, even. I was probably too young to fully understand what it meant, though I had a vague sense…
My mortality is something I have always struggled with, but I did not fully understand it until my mother’s father passed away four years ago, just before the birth of my daughter. His death hit me profoundly. He was the…
For years, I’ve seen the character Bluey on packaging, T-shirts, and just about every children’s product imaginable. So when my daughter asked if she could watch the show, my immediate response was an emphatic “no.” I didn’t want her glued…
