Jane Becker's blog

The Snapper came home from school and said, “Mom, the school is using our laptop web cams to spy on us.”I said, “Where can I get one of those?” and he said, “they’re spying on you too.”

I bought this month’s issue of a woman’s magazine without my glasses and it wasn’t until I got home that I saw the headline, “Great Sex Over 40!!!” 

We have very interesting dinner table conversations—though perhaps not the kind the experts envision when they urge parents to sit down at the table with their off-spring.

The Snapper is undergoing yet another battery of tests next week.  Junior year seems to be so full of them that I wonder how there is any time left to actually learn something other than how to take a test.  After he finishes the tests next week he gears up for his ACT test—which is followed by his AP tests.

I have worked in the field of technology for about 25 years but I still don’t know how to program my cell phone.  I explained it to a client one time, saying, “I’m a practitioner of philosophical technology”—meaning I can talk about it without actually doing anything about it.