Capturing The Moment Between The Moments: Take Interesting Photos Of Your Kids
Celebrity photographer George Lange shares 4 tips on creating unforgettable photos. I’ve been taking photographs since I was seven years old. My camera has taken me all over the world. Photography, I’ve learned, can be an excuse to say things you would edit out of normal conversation, do things you would normally hold back from [Read More]
App Review: TaskRabbit
I just returned from beautiful San Francisco, and I thought I was pretty on top of technology. However, after spending time with my SF friends I realized that there are many "hidden technology gems" that are popular in the Silicon Valley tech world that I knew nothing about! My favorite new "hidden gem" is TaskRabbit, a community [Read More]
Parenting At The Dawn Of Social Media
If the only thing I told my kids about sex was to use protection, would you think me a good parent? If I had never said more about drugs than, “Stay away,” would that have been alright? Then why is it okay that the only thing I told my kids about social media is be [Read More]
The 5 Stages Of Re-Entry (Into The Workforce)
I once spent my days in a cubicle neighborhood in the Seattle office of an international consulting firm. It was a good gig with challenging, if not always interesting, work and a clear path for advancement. Naturally, when I got pregnant I planned to keep working indefinitely. However, once my little bundle of joy and [Read More]
Want To Make Or Break A Habit? Try Lift
Goals: We make them, we break them. It’s easy to make the decision to change your behavior, only to regress once some actual work is involved. Everyone has something they’re trying to change about themselves, whether it’s exercising more, flossing daily, journaling continuously or giving up certain guilty pleasures. My vice was cherry Diet Coke. There [Read More]
Cooking Apps That Help You Fake It Til You Make It
The kitchen has been my arch nemesis for as long as I can remember. Well, I take that back. Three of my most beloved items have always lived in the kitchen: refrigerator, microwave and toaster oven (definitely in that order). I’ve always loved the art of eating but have been too paralyzed with fear to [Read More]
Actually, I Made It
All my life I’ve loved to make things. While other little girls played with Barbie dolls and learned how to put their hair in ponytails, I sorted through my massive Lego collection, building structures without any particular roadmap. As I got older, the Legos stayed behind with my younger brothers while I went off into [Read More]
Instagram Isn’t Always Telling the Full Story
I really don’t think it’s that people mean to create their ideal self for the world on Instagram (or Facebook or Pinterest or Twitter, for that matter). It’s just that people tend to want to share the good stuff. The I-grew-12-tomatoes-and-made-them-into-fresh-marinara-before-they-rotted-on-the-counter kind of stuff. The my-kid-wrote-me-a-love-note-instead-of-biting-me-today kind of stuff. The watch-this-old-piece-of-junk-become-a-beautifully-upcycled-changing-table-in-just-12-painstaking-weekends kind of stuff. You [Read More]