Like a few other people, Chris and I are eagerly awaiting the start of the new Mad Men season on Sunday night. Having these great cable series is a fabulous part of adult life. We’ve loved and lost The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Wire. Just this month, we watched the entire season of [...]
Last night’s news had a report that American children are now spending almost the equivalent of a full workday staring at a screen. Facebook. XBox. Texting. TV watching. Web surfing. It adds up. Big deal. I would like to point out that I, a representative of the middle-aged American, am a target of marketers as well. Screens are [...]
Last night we all converged in the kitchen at 9 PM, post-homework by pre-arrangement, for The Office. In a second burst of uncharacteristic culinary initiative in one week, I’d made a quiche while Chris and Hugh were outside doing yard work, and all was in readiness. Except we couldn’t find Malcolm, who had been skateboarding, [...]
