Phones for teens?

It’s no small problem: When should a parent allow a teen son of daughter to have full access to a smart phone? This knotty issue is the subject of an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 13-14, and while the writer devotes a lot of space...

How do you like it?

This is my first blog post since we launched our new website, constructed by the team at HOT IT in Wimberley and Round Rock. I certainly hope you like the format and find it a little more user-friendly and up-to-date than our old site, which had been around since...

Guess I’ll just stay home

My wife and I have enjoyed spending time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a few occasions. For us it held treasures we could discover every time we returned. Not that we went all that often. After all, it is in New York City, which isn’t just right around...

The same old lens?

How do you move the mountain called Hollywood? The Weinstein scandals must surely result in some kind of change, shouldn’t it? But, there’s more to the story in filmland than sexual assault. There’s repression of other different kinds. Here is a...

A sign of the times?

Another one bites the dust. The headline on the lead story in today’s business section of The New York Times says it all: “Bookstore Chain Succumbs, As E-Commerce Devours Retailing.” The story by David Streitfeld goes into great detail about the...

Best book in ’17

Over the Christmas weekend I finished reading “Artemis” by Andy Weir. I thought it would be a good read because I had read Weir’s first novel, called “The Martian.” Maybe you remember either the book or the movie made from it by the same...