Last Thursday, I was on a cross-country flight from EWR-SFO. Less than a third of the way into the flight, somewhere over Indiana, the unthinkable happened: my sweet, charming boy had become the vomiting preschooler. In an instant, we went from being the subject of smiles and waves to being that nightmare in-flight story. By…
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Another 40: Day 21
For the most part, the clients have entered the quiet zone known as Holiday Shutdown. It’s a blissful and glorious time, the time where I get to spend multiple days getting organized, closing out the current year and looking ahead to new things. Even though things were quiet today, I found that I was still…
My Conflicted Relationship with Kindle
I said I wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to make the leap to Kindle, no matter how many people raved about it. I was going to be a traditionalist, darn it, and I was going to read real books on real paper. But then they dropped the price to $299, and I…
Kindle
Ever since its initial release, I’ve been deeply intrigued by the Kindle. The people who have them swear by them, and I had finally convinced myself that the benefits of being able to carry an entire library on the plane far exceeded my reservations about the conversion. But then it hit me: for me, books…