Every year the holidays play out the same way. You show up to your family's gathering for the holidays, and right after you've had one too many pieces of pie, someone asks if you have any idea on how to fix their tech problem. Normally I don't mind helping, but …
Melting the generation gap
God bless my family genetics because my grandmother is turning 95 years old in two weeks. She's still as sharp as I can remember and gets around enought to still help with the fall canning with 4 of my aunts. So when her aged Dell computer finally died the family …
The Talk: Family & Social Media
One of the tried and true seasonal rituals is upon us, having family asking for tech support at holiday gatherings.[1] We all have our horror stories of some of the strange things we’ve seen while attempting to help family or friends with their outdated Windows computers, teaching them …
Moving on...
I know I haven’t posted in a while and that’s part of what I want to talk about tonight. I’ve been struggling with two concerns about the family blog for some time now. The first one has been the lack of consistent writing on my part. I …
Remembering a great friend…
Some of you may have already heard, but we had to put Pepper to sleep this past weekend. Pepper’s health had declined over the past couple of months and we could see his happiness was not what it used to be. Pepper was the first ‘major’ expense I got …