This week’s guest on the Parenting Bytes podcast (you can listen further down on this post) was Randi Zuckerberg. Yes, that Randi Zuckerberg. Founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media. Sister of Mark and former head of Market Development at Facebook. Creator of the book and TV series Dot. And the person behind of one of the…
My Interviews With The Stars Of The Girl On The Train
I have not read the popular book, The Girl on the Train. I think I may be the only one left. I plan on reading it though, because I saw the movie based on it last week, and loved it. And I’m always curious how far a script strays from it’s source material. Just about…
Love Her, Love Her Not
The other night over dinner my husband and I were watching Rachel Maddow interview Hillary Clinton by phone. Ms. Clinton’s voice sounded a bit raspy, but she still had energy at the end of what was probably another long day in a series of long days. I wouldn’t wish running for president on my worst…
Great Summer Reading For Middle Schoolers
My daughter is heading to six weeks of sleep-away camp next week, and when she gets there she’ll find a surprise in her bag: The first three books on a really awesome tween/teen summer reading list that my friend Sandie wrote for Common Sense Media. Sandie joined us on our latest episode of Parenting Bytes…
Books Aren’t Broccoli
My son just ended a two week punishment of nothing with a screen. No TV, no video games, no computer, no iPad, no internet on his phone. He’s positively ecstatic. He soaked in every minute of TV he could this morning before heading off to school. But as I switched on the internet connection for…
Stephen and Me: My Close, Personal Relationship With Stephen Colbert
That title is a total lie. The closest I’ve ever come to Stephen Colbert is last night when he signed my copy of his new book, America Again (Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t). If I could get closer, I would. I’ve been to tapings of his show, and I’ve calculated how fast I could…
Inspire and Instruct Your Kids with PaperSalt Books–and maybe win some!
This giveaway is now closed, but you can still use the discount code to order your own PaperSalt books until the end of July, 2012! Just enter the code “selfish mom” and you’ll get 30% off of PaperSalt’s already low prices. Congratulation to our winner, Jen, entry number five. And thanks to all who entered!…
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Last week I wrote about a video that the organization One had released, in its effort to spread the word about famine in Africa. My sister Cara wrote in the comments that I should read a book called The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Since my sister is smart and my Kindle lets me find,…
Randomosity: Don’t pull my finger edition
So there’s something wrong with my finger. About six weeks ago it developed a big callous-like thing on one side next to the nail. It was fairly painful when touched so after a few days I tried to trim the hard skin off with nail clippers, but under the hard skin was just more hard…
Want to meet Laura Bennett?
You know those people who plan out their month in advance, figure out who’s going to pick up whom when, what they’re going to cook for dinner for weeks at a time, and when they’re going to sit down and do the project that’s due on the 15th? I’m just not one of those people. …
