I knew it might happen. Today at school our youngest daughter, Cozette (8), was teased about not having a grandfather. Somehow, she and two friends got onto the subject and when they found out she doesn’t have one, I suppose they saw that as an opportunity to exert power over another person. Children are cruel. And so they teased her about it until she cried. In retelling the story to me at dinner, she cried again. I sat her on…
If you’ve been paying any attention, you notice patterns of stages that we all go through when it comes to Twitter. At first we don’t get it. We don’t understand the concept. It’s the ‘who cares what someone had for breakfast?’ stage. But then we reluctantly try it out. And we have an epiphany. I call this the ‘this is the most amazing thing ever invented’ stage. Once we grasp Twitter’s core concept of connectivity, we enter something called the…
After a busy day at work – I rushed home to get as many chores done as possible before dark. I pulled into our driveway and called for my daughter, who was at her grandmother’s house in the back. I explained to her that we had things to do and that I needed her help. She initially freaked out about having to do homework, but I told her it would be ok to take a break from homework tonight. Up first…
As parents, we see our kids all the time – but don’t really see them at all. It’s the woods for the trees phenomenon. Or, if you like, being too close to your product to clearly articulate its value to the audience. They’re our children. Human beings growing at the fastest rate of their lives. And we don’t see it. Earlier tonight my wife brought up a cute thing that one of our daughters used to do when she was…
It’s time to light a rescue fire in the letters SOS. Also, there’s this: Maybe this is why I can’t take Republican politicians seriously this election. *** Jim Mitchem
I wrote this post on Wednesday, and by Friday SOPA was dead. Congratulations to everyone who fussed. On Friday I actually received an email from my congressman Larry Kissell after sending the letter below. * I didn’t want to get all caught up in the SOPA drama today, but with everyone flailing around the like it’s the zombie apocalypse, I slipped and fell into the bucket of chaos with the rest of you. However, I’m not one of those guys…
