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I've had it up to my spam filter with bright holiday graphics telling me to have a great holiday. I appreciate the sentiment and I'm an ordinarily cheery holiday person, not at all a bah humbug type. But do I really need 50-75 emails from companies wishing me a joyful holiday. I'd even take this to the next level, even if you're a person, rather than a corporate entity, you're … [Read more...] about Enough with the holiday email blasts!

Politics aside, was I the only one a shocked at the Ann Romney rah-rah speech about the supremacy of moms. Don't get me wrong, I believe moms are great. I also love strong women, including my own mother and my wife. I found Ms. Romney's speech reaching a little too hard to bring women back into the fold after Democratic "war on women" charges. Does one sex really have to own … [Read more...] about Ann Romney speech a turn-off for dads?

Today my son goes to what he calls the "Bodanical" Gardens here in San Francisco. He's taken a lot of heat for this pronunciation this week, which he now says is how his friends say it. At 8, however, he is at the end of the hilarious mispronunciations of common words. He has corrected "webbins" for weapons and "sahl" for saw and all the rest, sadly. He is still yelling for mom … [Read more...] about Fading signs of early childhood for my youngest

My kids are now 8 and 12. Their summer interests are as varied as they are. They mostly want to spend the summer enjoying a break from the modern pressures of school and harried carpool structure. But like many or most of us, with the summer spread out before them, they have big dreams for what can be accomplished in the next three months. My son wants to build as many Legos as … [Read more...] about Summer projects