Kids, I have a few pieces of advice I would like to pass on to you. One, never punch a redwood especially not in Middle-Earth, since there’s a good chance it is really an Ent. If those movies (there were books or something too, novelizations of the films or some such?) taught me anything, it [...]

When I finished my column last week I went to bed. When I got up in the morning, I checked in with my editor to make sure my e-mail had been received. I was speaking with her on MSN at the time and asked how things were going. She told me things were hectic, that [...]

We are supposed to be the generation that gave up our privacy, and Facebook is supposed to be the altar we sacrificed it on. Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t. That’s a debate for another time. One patently absurd idea is that Facebook, or smartphones, or any other piece of technology has in some way [...]

I wrote this column at 4 AM the night before the paper you are holding right now was put together. There. I said it. My first column, my big introduction to my readers (reader? person who skimmed it for the sole purpose of looking for typos? Mom?) and I in fact forgot it was even [...]