Hello all fellow parents... it is now officially Time. To. Unplug. Maybe it was when I watched my 2-year-old at the park try to "swipe" a block of wood, thinking it was like an "iPad." Maybe it was the feeling like I was never quite focused with my kids. Maybe...

In the 15th century, a Spanish noble woman named Leonor López de Córdoba wrote her "Memorias," which are considered to be the first autobiography. Since then, writing autobiographies has flourished in literature. Surprisingly, in film, not so much.

I never intended to...

A recent evolutionary study on the large size of the human brain proposes that it did not grow for a greater capacity for knowledge, but for our great need to "connect," in order to survive as species. The plethora of films that focus on the power of "connection" and...

What advice should I share with 6,000 graduates?

What could I wear to accent that huge black robe?

Those were some of the thoughts running through my mind when I read the e-mail inviting me to deliver the 2010 keynote speech at UC-Berkeley's commencement ceremony.

And what would my father...

Shabbat is a very old idea -- 5000 years old. And people have been talking about "technology shabbats" for a while ... but perhaps today, we. Really. Need. An. Intervention.

I definitely do. Recently addicted to tweeting, I became that person I hated who pulled out her iPhone while...