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The next Chicago Food Swap will take place on May 12 at The Scrumptious Pantry in Logan Square. Registration is now open. As always, to find out more about the Chicago Food Swap, check out our website or join the conversation on our Facebook page.

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Parenting in the Digital Age

Remember when phones looked like this? Our kids don't.

Parenting in the digital age has numerous challenges that we anticipate — cyber-bullying and “sexting” to name two — and even more that we don’t anticipate. While my children are not old enough for Facebook profiles or their own phones, I still find that parenting [...]

October 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Culture, Parenting, pop culture, Social Media, Zuzu | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

My Kid is Part Werewolf

Like Kate Middleton on her wedding day, JR does his own makeup.

I have been laid low this week with a summer cold. Henry James once said that “summer afternoon” is the most beautiful phrase in the English language. If that is so, then “summer cold” must be one of the ugliest. The cause [...]

June 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: JR, Parenting, pop culture | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Staying Connected through Email

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.

When I studied abroad in Paris in 1994, I had to write letters home.

Technology and the internet have changed our lives [...]

May 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: marriage, pop culture, Social Media | Comments are closed

I’m So Over/I Will Never Be Over

Photo credit: www.bacontoday.com

So, it’s come to this. The laziest possible kind of post: a list. But actually, everyone loves a list, don’t they? As a kid, I looked forward all year to the Washington Post Style section’s annual In and Out list, which it published on New Year’s Day. These days, I always [...]

May 4th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: pop culture | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Curse you, Second Grade!

It might be time to talk to these kids about Internet safety.

I had expected that second grade would be a pivotal year for Zuzu. And it has been. She got her ears pierced. She had her first sleep-over at a friend’s house. She saved up her money to buy a very grown-up iPod [...]

February 24th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Parenting, pop culture, Social Media, Zuzu | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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