reading – Susan Van Sciver

Create your own magazine or newspaper

I am on an ongoing quest to make technology my friend and not my foe (see Techs and Balances). Lately, my favorite technology friend-maker is Flipboard. I’m seriously late to the game on this one. Apple named it App of the Year….in 2010, and Time proclaimed it one of the Top 50 Innovations…once again, inContinue reading “Create your own magazine or newspaper”

My kid is a genius: Part 1

Have you ever read the book, “The Carrot Seed” by Ruth Krauss? It’s incredibly simple and woefully bland to look at. It is 12 pages of simple words and filled with only 4 dull colors – brown, white, beige and 70’s yellow. Surprisingly, my kid loves it. Lately he has been making me read it to him 3Continue reading “My kid is a genius: Part 1”

How to Literally Exercise Self-Control

I have always thought that the world was divided into people with good self-control and the rest of us. There are those who workout every day at 5:00am and the rest of us. There are those who stay focused and ignore the office chitchat, and there’s the rest of us. There are those who don’tContinue reading “How to Literally Exercise Self-Control”