iamBOSSY

So there you are in your Saturday night and you receive a phone call from your teenage child who is making the obligatory phone call from The Friend's House as promised, and you hang up all kinds of thrilled because you have raised such responsible children except... where they really there? The fact remains that with all of these technological advances and minute-to-minute connectivity, we are actually less likely to know where and what are children are actually doing. Think about it.   Read more >

Recently Bossy's son brought an interesting topic to the dinner table. The background: he is a sophomore at Columbia University in New York City, and currently working in Columbia's job placement program. Every day he sees the rules change as social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter gain traction with the "regular" population outside of us internet types.   Read more >

Bossy's husband recently purchased this little machine-thingy (he went in halfsies with Bossy's brother) which is being used to transfer old VHS family movies to DVD, and oh my gah people! Hassle.Bossy should back up: Since the birth of her son over two decades ago -- and don't laugh because it will happen to you before you can say College Tuition? -- Bossy and her husband have invested a lot of energy into filming the Bossy family for posterity.   Read more >

As Bossy watched the Super Bowl with a gang of friends a couple of weeks ago -- and tucked her head down to read her cell phone for the umpteenth time because MAN were Bossy's blog friends exchanging hilarious commentary on twitter -- Bossy's friend Amy rolled her eyes."I didn't even think you liked having a cell phone and now you can't put it down," Amy said.Bossy made her usual excuse about, well, she's a blogger and, it's twitter and, it's kind of like work, and blah blah jive blah.  Read more >