Ah, so you’ve moved to the suburbs for the space, the peace, and the quiet. Congratulations! And welcome. But before you explore your cookie-cutter neighborhood with your kid in tow, let me warn you. Every mom around here is looking for a carpooling relationship. A new neighbor — especially a…

The myth about living between two cultures. — M y home is an American shopping cart: Honey Nut Cheerios, boxed mac & cheese, broccoli crowns, $8 Italian Reds, eat-all-you-can Cheetos, baseball caps, cuffed beanies, overpriced Cubs merch, 6 pack Bud Lite, Lodge skillet, dinosaur sticker sheets, Yankee candles, Crayola crayons, Wilson footballs, Thomas trains… dead giveaways of a…

And no, we’re not asking ChatGPT. — If there’s one thing that unites Americans, it’s our obsession with aliens. How else do you think the 1980s blockbuster E.T. became the highest-grossing film of all time. For 16 non-consecutive weekends, E.T. rocketed to №1 at the U.S. box office — a record no movie could match. As a…

It will force us to be better. — If there was a word of the year, ChatGPT would top the list. Just going by how it has exploded on the internet. This generative A.I. writing tool is all the rage. Forrester Research analyst Rowan Curran has declared it “the iPhone moment for A.I.” Elon Musk says it’s “scary…

And why we shouldn’t worry about it. — My kid’s back from school and is playing Minecraft on the Xbox. The video camera is on while he plays. The camera can watch him and record how he reacts. I can’t help but wonder — who owns my son’s playtime? On Facebook, I post pictures of my birthday cake…

Content writers may have the answer. — Copywriters are disappearing faster than a cat on a mouse. On Planet Copy, that’s a sobering thought. Given they used to lord over their creative kingdoms not long ago. Today for every 6K+ open positions for copywriters on LinkedIn, there are 12K + job openings for content writers. In creative…

Spoiler alert: It hasn’t been updated in 20 years! — I’d been out of the workforce for almost a decade. So when I tried to make a comeback, I expected the world to have changed — telepathic interviews, four-day workweeks, offices staffed with industrial robots… In some ways, it had — creative in-housing was gathering steam, new social channels had…

Not my writing one; the one I use to interact with people. — Of all questions there’s none more annoying than “Why are you so quiet?” A question that’s thrown at me a billion times. Would you ask someone “Why is your nose big?” Or “Why are your eyes so close together?” Or “Why do you have a round face? But no one…

The chickens are being gassed, the piglets aborted…is Veganism the only answer? — I’ve turned the page on another horror story. If you think animal abuse couldn’t get any worse, sorry. It got a whole lot worse. The pandemic has shone a light on what routinely occurs in dimly lit chicken houses and hog farms everywhere. Only, this time it made headlines. The…