I asked my 17-year-old son this the other night. At first he said "no way." Then he thought about it and said "yes, because it is Friday night to Saturday night and I don't need to go on the Internet for school." But when I said it meant texting too,...

The current Time magazine cover trumpets women as the "richer sex" and says that women overtaking men as America's breadwinners is good for everyone. I disagree.
From the age of 12, I was out winning bread as the first paper GIRL in Seattle. From that age...

The annual Consumer Electronics Show always provides a preview of the great new gadgets, consumer devices and entertainment systems from big screen televisions to mobile phones. However, this year, the larger trends behind the shiny new objects were also the talk of the show floor.

In the December 6,...

I was four that summer of 1962. We had just moved to Seattle from Detroit. My father worked for Huck, big manufacturing partner of Boeing, and had been transferred to be closer to his huge customer. I remember that we still were not totally settled in and our brand new...

Yesterday, Motorola Mobility announced its sale to Google and last week, IBM celebrated the 30th anniversary of the personal computer. I remember that last event well; I was two years out of college and working in Silicon Valley during the summer of 1981. I remember Motorola's landmark first mobile phone....

I must admit that I am an eternal optimist and the last thing that I would do is look for trouble or live in fear of something as random as terrorism or shooting rampages. But then, a few years back when I was living in Madrid, my 16-year-old daughter happened...

The tea parties took hold across the US in this week's election but not in the far Northwest corner of the country. We re-elected Patty Murray for god's sake. The local pundits are calling it the Coffee Party movement. I think it has everything to do with the Seattle attitude....

There is a critical need to free up capital for entrepreneurs in America now. Today the House announced that it passed legislation that will open up to $300 billion in loans for small businesses, and $3.5 billion in tax incentives and tax relief. Not a second too soon. Hopefully, soon...

Cloister is defined as
1. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
2. Life in a monastery or convent.
3. A secluded, quiet place.
tr.v. clois·tered, clois·ter·ing, clois·ters
1. To shut away from the world in or as if in...

Every morning, I shake my own sleep off and scamper downstairs to wake the "boy." He is my youngest and is the only one still at home, although standing nearly 6'3", hardly a boy. At 15, he is now deep into the teenage sleep pattern. It started about 18 months...

After I wrote about how I finally ended my 34-year insomnia as part of the Huffington Post Sleep Challenge, I started hearing from people from all over who were touched by my tale of finding happiness and with it, finding sleep. But all is not nirvana in sleep...

I was an insomniac for 34 years. I became an insomniac at 16. It was not a big deal. I had a lot to do with school, sports, homework, and taking graduate level courses at night at the University, and most importantly, talking to friends for hours on the phone....

My son wants to be a journalist. What do I tell him? I feel somewhat sick as if he told me he has enlisted and is going off to war. He is a journalist for his college newspaper. He started as a freshman writing pieces, covering whatever he was asked...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, our flight is currently circling New York City because President Obama's in our airspace." said the pilot of my American flight last Thursday. President Obama is everywhere. He is the Eveready Bunny. He is Forrest Gump. He is at the Kremlin, then in Rome with the G8...

And why the DOJ is taking a hard second look before approving

In my 25 years in the technology industry, I have seen many once-important companies disappear. Remember Bull or Honeywell or Digital Equipment? Now the sun is setting on Sun. What makes this more remarkable is that Sun wasn't...

The traditional media brand scions of Time, the Washington Post and Newsweek are of diminishing import with circulation and advertising declines. Major city newspapers are disappearing like the rainforest. In the past six months, we have witnessed the closing of the Denver Mountain News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San...