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Awkward Family Photos

As I sometimes reveal here, there is something universal about the awkwardness of family. About a week ago, two childhood friends launched a site to document as much. The results — in the vein of LOLCats and Stuff White People Like — are hilarious: The Choker: “This is what happens when your male role model […]

Filed Under: Family History, Humor, Pop Culture Tagged With: awkward family photos, family, Family History, Humor, photos

10 Things I Hate About You, Travel Edition

The flight from Boston to Los Angeles takes six hours, during which there is a kind of caricature of intimacy that develops, at least in Coach. You might not even know the name of the guy sitting at your elbow, but still: You know his choice of reading material; what he drinks with his meal; […]

Filed Under: Business, Pop Culture, Travel Tagged With: air travel, airplanes, friendship, social, Travel

A Journey to ’25 Random Things’

Facebook Random

Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Twizzlers. I’m tagged again by Tim (“I’m a […]

Filed Under: Business, Media, Pop Culture, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: '25 Things', connectivity, digital life, Facebook, meme, online intimacy, Social Media, social networks, Technology

Refugee At Home

noses

On Monday I had a small patch of skin cancer removed from the bridge of my nose. It sounds like a big deal, but it wasn’t. The procedure itself felt no worse than having an earlobe pierced: There was only a quick, surprising burn as the doctor applied a local anesthetic, but the actual procedure […]

Filed Under: Politics & Society, Pop Culture Tagged With: basal cell carcinoma, cancer, doctors, modern medicine, music, narcotics, refugee, refugees, sitcoms, skin, Tom Petty, Top 40

Wii Are Family

Wii tennis pro

In college, I had a friend named Jane. She was the oldest daughter in a family of tennis players, and they all looked like her: tall and willowy, but strong as thoroughbreds, with defined muscles in their long arms and legs; permanently sunburned noses; and an effortless way of moving that was almost heartbreaking to […]

Filed Under: Children, Family History, Parenting, Pop Culture, Teenagers Tagged With: children's games, digital life, family culture, personal history, sports, Technology, tennis, uncoordinated, Wii

Innocents At Home

It snowed the other morning north of Boston. It was the first, early snowfall of the season, if you take a very literal view of the term “snowfall,” because the flurries that fell didn’t amount to any real accumulation. They stuck tentatively to the ground, in clusters, like they were as surprised to be landing […]

Filed Under: Media, Politics & Society, Pop Culture, Teenagers Tagged With: 1970s, Baby Boomers, daughters, kids, Millennial Generations, Millennials, snow day, social consciousness

I Can Haz Hoomin Hart-aik

i knowz dis place lyk teh back of my... ...wat's dis?

Maybe it’s because the holidays put me in a melancholy mood. Maybe because I’m again staring down the barrel of six bleak months of winter. Whatever the cause, I can’t help but read lolcats these days without glimpsing the heartache of the human condition. In a piece a few weeks ago in Salon, Jay Dixit […]

Filed Under: Humor, Pop Culture Tagged With: internet, lolcats, memes, Social Media

Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin

On the surface, I should like her. Sarah Palin is 44, precisely my age. We were born three months apart. And like me, she’s a mom and works full-time. We should hang out, clink our highball glasses, and salute the kind of kismet that competent women often need to create real achievement. Except, in her […]

Filed Under: Humor, Politics & Society, Pop Culture, Women Tagged With: Hillary Clinton, junior high, mean girl, personal history, Sarah Palin, successful women, tweenagers, Women

Morning Person

birds at sunrise

Like millions of people around the world who are following the Beijing Olympics, I’ve been watching a lot of TV this summer. Parked on my couch watching the events, it’s alternatively a new experience as well as a shot of nostalgia. Here, in 2008, I’m watching the summer games with my own kids. But I […]

Filed Under: Politics & Society, Pop Culture, Women Tagged With: kids, marine horn, Olympics, Parenting, sleep, summer

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