Mother’s Day Gifts for Helicopter and Tiger Moms
It’s not too late to shop for the overbearing or over-your-shoulder parent. Here are a few technology gifts that will put a smile on her face. 1. Sign her up for Skype and keep the […]
Tag: Humor Outcasts
Text and The City
I heart New York, but face it, the city that never sleeps has its hazards and they’re constantly changing. A decade ago, pedestrian casualties involved cabs and run-ins with their drivers. This week, my New […]
Are Textiles The New Texting?
This week I passed a distracted driver and had to do a second take. She wasn’t yelling at her kids or texting— she was knitting. Well actually, she was unraveling a skein of yarn as […]
Pick-Up Lines
When one of my Twitter friends asked for people’s favorite pick-up lines, I was initially intrigued. Going down that road would be a frivolous trip down a younger and thinner memory lane, right? I tried […]
When Dorms Are Like Palaces
Yes, the Princeton Review’s top college rankings includes schools with “Dorms Like Palaces”. Hold the tiara and armor. Before you squeeze on the glass slipper or buy a white horse, it’s best to beware of […]
Celebrity Flashcards
Last year when my friend Akil Bello, a test prep expert, tweeted the following brilliant message, I knew he was onto something big…. Word of the day: turpitude – wickedness, vice, vileness, wrongdoing…CBS fired Charlie Sheen […]
College Humor: Extracting Wisdom
There’s one familiar milestone on the road to the college launch that doesn’t get much press. Oral surgery. This pre-college dental rite of passage just might be the universe’s way of giving parents one final […]