Cougel takes Manhattan! With a 14 year old boy.

My first cousin who lives in Israel – who I love like an older sister – sent her fourteen-year-old son to the states for the summer. He is staying with my sister and her family in New Jersey, and to give my sister a break, and as a favor to my cousin, I offered to […]

Step away from the iPhone. Daydream instead.

The Atlantic magazine has a bunch of interesting ideas in this month’s “Ideas of the Year” issue (go figure).  Walter Kirn (Author of Up in the Air) writes about how boredom – a condition we detest and run from – has become extinct. Thanks to technology (the iPad, the iPhone, Twitter etc), we are offered […]