Technology

Class had started. As I walked up and down the rows of desks to check homework, a student said to me as I walked by, “Your kids are cute Mrs. Degner, but they’re crazy.” “They take after their father,” I quipped,...

This time of year, there are a lot of habits that cost money.  The cable bill supports your love of Hallmark holiday movies.  The grocery bill takes care of all the flour and sugar for cookie exchanges.  Isn't it...

A friend who is a few years ahead of me as a mom told me, “Write everything down now. My kids ask me all the time about when they were younger and at this point, I just make stuff...

I’d be willing to bet that while you’re reading this your cell phone is within 10 feet of you. It’s likely within arms reach and possibly in your hand at this very moment. It’s a good bet, the odds are...

There was a reason my four-year-old had his own phone. It just wasn't a good one. When my husband and I got new phones, we kept the old ones for an upcoming vacation. It would be our first flight in...

June 1st of 2018 was not only the day that we closed on our house, but it was also the last day of school, the last day to say goodbye to friends, and the day that we set off...

Do you watch the news regularly? Do you pick up a newspaper every day and read more than just the headlines? Do you have a favorite news podcast you never miss? Do you listen to NPR or other radio...

The other day I opened up Facebook and saw on my feed a particularly disturbing photograph of a sobbing young child in what could only be described as a cage.  Bold wording over the photograph insinuated that this child...

It’s summer in Iowa City, which means it’s time for the annual population turnover. You can see the shift especially well downtown. Every year at the beginning of summer, students head home, and the streets fill with families enjoying...

If you are reading this post today, then you are most likely a social-media-user.  Maybe you have the self-control to turn it off/log off/put it away sometimes, but maybe you don't.  And that's ok.  Yes, because I said so. ...