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We just returned from our fourth trip to Disney with the boys and one of my funniest memories was of watching a woman beg an ice cream stand server at Epcot to please plug in her dying phone so that the rest of her family could find her.
This time round mobile technology played a big part of our trip, partly because the boys are older and more tech savvy and partly because we [...]

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Words with Friends, the highly addictive iPhone app, has gotten more than its fair share of press. There was Alec Baldwin getting kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to power down in the middle of his game. And there was the Wall Street Journal article that portrayed the bonding that comes with playing Words with Friends as one of the off-the-field activities that helps the Super Bowl–winning Giants play so well [...]

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How often do you talk about sex? And when you do, do you raise an eyebrow? My posts and tweets on this topic tonight seemed to have raised quite a few.
We live in a world where young children start off embarrassed about their sexual curiosity—and I know this from experience with my own kids. Eventually they grow up and stories about their sexual conquests permeate conversations with their friends. So how is it that as [...]

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There were 80,000 people in attendance at the U2 concert I went to recently.  And from what I could tell, all 80,000 were sharing their experience with friends and family through their own social networks and mobile devices.  As my husband and I photographed, tweeted and posted updates on Facebook, I was convinced that this was more than half the fun.
Rewind to one of my most favorite assignments over [...]

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A few weeks ago my family and I checked into the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront and were rewarded with a special key card proclaiming our status as Silver Elite and a welcome gift of our choosing. For what, I’m not sure—checking in to the same hotel on the same weekend two years running? I don’t consider us frequent guests of Marriott, and while it was certainly nice to be treated as such, it almost [...]