When we see large tragedies like the Newtown shooting, they’re often followed by stories of people helplessly searching for ways to “do something and you don’t know what to do”. They feel helpless. It’s a natural... [Continue Reading]
On the new social media website Google+, I’ve seen some conversation from people who are discovering Evernote and I thought I’d write about how I’ve come to use it. I’ve written about Evernote before: How to save a web page... [Continue Reading]
Now that Isabella is five years old (where id the time go?!), Melanie and I have been talking about her education, which we expect to begin formally in the fall as homeschooling. While Melanie is taking the lead here, I want to be involved... [Continue Reading]
Bob Rice’s “Between the Savior and the Sea” is a novelization of the public ministry of Jesus with a focus on St. Peter. It is not a theological treatise, although as Bob says, he based his story on solid theology. Neither is it... [Continue Reading]
I’ve been saving bookmarks using the Delicious bookmark service (now owned by Yahoo) for about 6 years now. If you’re not familiar with it, Delicious (which was originally at the unusual URL of del.icio.us), it is a web site that saves... [Continue Reading]
After months of talking about it and making plans for it, we finally went to the New England Aquarium today. Isabella has always been crazy about fish, ever since the days when Melanie would take the 2-year-old Bella to her OB’s office where... [Continue Reading]
I got my new iPhone 4 today. As little as a few days ago, I didn’t think I’d be getting one, even though I’ve been eagerly anticipating from even before it was announced in early June. I knew that Apple releases a new iPhone each... [Continue Reading]
My colleague George Martell, an award-winning photojournalist, is in Haiti over the next few days with Cardinal Seån O'Malley, six weeks after the massive earthquake that left an estimated 300,000 people dead. Cardinal O'Malley was to arrive in... [Continue Reading]
In June 2008, our offices moved from Brighton to Braintree, to a relatively new office building that sits on the edge of an office park, but is right next to a large cemetery. For some reason that felt right. Memento mori, after all, was a common... [Continue Reading]
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