Jane Becker

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  1. Prom-a Drama

    4/26/10 10:50am by Jane Becker
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    I was helping the Snapper select a corsage for his senior prom date.  Luckily he had a phone photo of his date’s dress.  I said, “Isn’t technology fabulous?  Read more >

  2. Student Webcams, School Spying--and Snowballs

    2/19/10 6:46am by Jane Becker
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    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.”  Read more >

  3. Acting My Age

    6/25/09 6:01pm by Jane Becker
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    I am so middle-aged.   Read more >

  4. How To Have Great Sex

    5/14/09 5:04pm by Jane Becker
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    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!!!”   Read more >

  5. Saint or Sinner?

    5/7/09 8:46am by Jane Becker
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    Motherhood is no job for Saints.  Just look at St. Jane de Chantal.    Read more >

  6. Putting It On The Table

    4/14/09 1:05pm by Jane Becker
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    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.  Read more >

  7. Joe Biden, And Me

    3/31/09 11:31am by Jane Becker
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    I called my friend Annie and told her, “Joe Biden is now the symbol for working women over the age of 50.”     Read more >

  8. Master of the Universe

    3/12/09 5:54am by Jane Becker
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    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.  Read more >

  9. It Is Good To Have Fun

    3/2/09 2:27pm by Jane Becker
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    Today is Theodore Geisel’s (aka Dr. Seuss) birthday. When Wally and the Snapper were little, I read a lot of Dr. Seuss to them.  Being the good mother that I am, I frequently subverted the text.    Read more >

  10. Ahead of the Curve, Behind the Times

    2/25/09 12:43pm by Jane Becker
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    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.   Read more >

Jane Becker

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