According to a recent study, the average U.S. teen sends 3,339 texts per month.  It sounds like a crazy number, but after watching how my 7-year-old son has taken to it, I’m a believer. Over the past month, A has gotten into texting in a big way.  It began as a way of passing the … More My Son, Text Addict

I think most people have decided that on-line comment pages have become useless. What was supposed to be one of the great advantages of on-line news content – engaging, user-created dialogue about topical issues – has become an arena for trolls, petty partisan bickering, failed attempts at humour, and appalling grammar.  For example, an article … More Comments and Reviews

True story. Last night, a stranger came to our door. I let him in, and he stayed for about 30 minutes. He left with $1,069. That’s the short version. When B arrived home last night with the boys, the furnace was making a weird sound and the house smelled like burnt plastic. As neither of … More I’ve Been Robbed

You can have information, or you can have a life. But you can’t have both. Douglas Coupland When I first started my job way back in 1998, we didn’t have external e-mail or Internet access. The other day a friend tweeted that she receives 25 e-mails an hour on a typical work day. Every time … More Ignorance Is Bliss

Last weekend I attended commencement at my old school, Preston High School. To avoid confusion, I should point out that this is not the same Preston High School that Napoleon Dynamite went to, although that would have been pretty cool. I know it’s cliche to say something like “it brought back lots of memories”, but … More Back to Preston