It was a year of change for both mother and son, as well as for making new connections and reading books by Jonathan Franzen.
Read More2013 in Review
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A Gift of Ease
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Isn’t it a pain when the wrong gift finds the wrong person at the wrong time? Here are some ideas to ease the burden all around.
Read MoreIntro to Pinterest
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Discover the first social network built for next-age storage, categorization, and sharing of images, videos, and links.
Read MoreUn-Getting a Tattoo
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Having a tattoo removed is a lot like getting one in the first place: both decisions involve cost, permanence, and pain.
Read MoreTriangulation™
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Useful at the start of a naming or branding project, this method supplements a left-brain brief with some right-brain inspiration.
Read MoreThe Collected Helicopter Sightings
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The highlights of chopper flights as seen from our balcony reveal a lot about who is flying what over Warsaw these days.
Read MoreClarified
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The single ingredient most uniformly missing from Western kitchens is also the one with the most potential for the home cook.
Read MoreBento
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I seem to be on a mission to prove that a healthful, inexpensive, and delicious homemade meal can also be easy to make.
Read MoreThird-Quarter Gains
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This year’s yield consists of eleven jars of strawberry, ten of blackcurrant, and a dozen each of apricot and raspberry.
Read MoreThose Polish Pilots
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A lucky shot of an airliner on its approach to Warsaw’s Okęcie is flawed enough to actually come across as authentic.
Read MoreIt’s a Helicopter!
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Capturing helicopters as they’re flying by is the newest activity to unite this duo of mother and three-year-old son.
Read MoreFile Naming Is Naming Too
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A pragmatic-slash-conceptual search for an optimal filing system for photos may have implications for more than digital files.
Read MoreEating with Anker
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Being in charge of a child’s culinary education ranks among my favorite responsibilities. Here is what I’ve learned so far.
Read MoreWhen Next Means Previous and Forward is Back
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An inquiry into those ambiguous link pairs on the internet, and into the way they are a missed opportunity for clarity.
Read MoreHave You Seen This Fork?
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One girl’s impressions about an unusually well-appointed vintage fork, spilling over into ideas about design and functionality.
Read MoreCounterfeit
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Here’s what happened when I found a counterfeit and tried to report it to the police—before and after a journalist got involved.
Read MoreEntranced
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A welcome to my blog and an analysis of one mesmerizing sign that caught my attention at Copenhagen’s Arken Museum in 2009.
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