Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
I think by now you’re probably tired of hearing/reading my tweets and facebook status updates about my teenager passing her behind-the-wheel test (with only two bad ticks, mind you) last week. AP Photo Carrie Cochran Yes, we are so proud of her for completing this grueling process, and yet our gut wrenches each time she asks for [...]
When you think of Cabo, or Los Cabos, you might imagine celebs at the Palmilla Hotel, or the cruise ships lining the coast and shuttling passengers to and from the mainland. In March, Spring Break students take over this sunny coastal town in Baja California, Mexico. A fleet of glass-bottom boats waits to take tourists [...]
“You would do that for your brother, right?” Betty Ann Waters asks her two sons in the final scene of the film, “Conviction” (in theaters October 15, 2010). But when you ask yourself this question after watching the true-life account of a Massachusetts high-school dropout's quest to free her wrongfully-convicted brother, Kenneth Waters, it is even more [...]
The thunderous noise heard throughout the house was not due to the winds howling through bending palm trees during our recent storm, but to my overjoyed son jumping up and down screaming , “I'm gonna be a Boilermaker!!”after reading an acceptance e-mail which landed in his In box at 7:48 PM PST from Purdue University. [...]
Nissan, the Japanese automaker, invited me to spend one night at the W Hotel in downtown San Diego, California for the …
