I recently read The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt. All I knew about The Goldfinch before I read it was it won a Pulitzer Prize and a bunch of my friends had read it. I had no idea what the book was about. For the first couple dozen pages or more I didn't even … Continue reading The Goldfinch and the adventure of reading a book I knew nothing about
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Ah, the pitter-patter of little feet. Sure, it could be the sound of adorable children coming to give you hugs, but it could be the sound of a group of hell creatures coming to eat your soul. Some nights it can be hard to tell the difference. Is there a difference? Being a parent is … Continue reading 10 reasons why living with children is like being in a haunted house
Last weekend I got to spend time with a friend from college. To be specific, she is a friend I know from college, but we were not friends when we were in college. There was no dramatic reason why we were not friends. She was a few years ahead of me. We were in the … Continue reading Social media and a friend from college who was not my college friend
More and more websites are using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) by default. Recently, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared that all public-facing websites for U.S. government agencies will use HTTPS by the end of 2016. The increased use of HTTPS instead of unencrypted HTTP is great news for data security … Continue reading HTTPS does not mean your data is safe
"Growing up, we were allowed to read any book in the house," writes Maria Casale in her essay for the New York Times titled "This Book is Too Old for You." The piece has prompted some online discussion about whether or not parents should censor what their kids read. Reading those comments prompted me to … Continue reading 3 books I don’t want my children to read
Kim Z. Dale 