There’s a Banana Republic about 2 blocks away from my office and I walk by it every night on my way home. I wish there was a flashing red sign outside the door that said “Danger, danger” everytime I got close. I think they have such cute stuff. So recently, when I stopped in after [...]
When I was in high school my dad said to me (more than once), "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you jump off, too?" Aside from the fact that this is a total cliche, it’s not a very good way to demonstrate peer pressure. At least I don’t think so. Would I jump [...]
If you’ve ever wondered whether you can really make a difference in the world, here’s your answer…YOU CAN! I just read this article about a city in Illinois (Peoria) that had teenagers help the city council decide what changes and plans they should make. The planning commissioner told the high school students, "It’s going to [...]
If my dad could’ve, he would’ve installed a GPS chip in my arm when I was a teenager. He also liked teasing me that he kept track of the car mileage so he knew how far I was driving every time I borrowed his car. But I knew he was just razzing me. It was [...]
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the world because I get to meet some really, really cool teenagers – and 18-year-old Kayte Gyles is one of them. I met Kayte and her parents when they were in New York last month visiting from British Columbia, Canada. If you met Kaye today, you [...]
My high school started at 7:30am. Every morning. Every weekday. It was excruciating. Looking back, I have no idea how I managed to ever show up to my homeroom class on time. Not to mention all the days I went to early assemblies and school council meetings and had to get their at the ungodly [...]
I was reading this article about the economy and the impact it’s having on teenagers. According to the Associated Press, there aren’t as many summer jobs available and with costs going up for everything from movies to flip-flops, teens are getting thrifty. News flash: Teens have always been thrifty. I mean, seriously, do they really [...]
I read this op-ed called “Driving Miss Chloe” in the New York Times a few weeks ago and was surprised when I read the statistic that fewer teenagers are learning to drive – not because they can’t, but because they don’t really need or want to. I figure most things printed in the New York [...]
My parents came to visit me and my husband in New York a few months ago (they hadn’t come to see us in THREE YEARS and I told them if they didn’t come by March 1, 2008, they were officially disowned. They booked plane tickets like the next day–they could tell I was serious). Anyway, [...]
I was reading an article on how to eat in New York on 99 cents a day and it got me thinking about things that cost just $1. And, of all the things that cost just a dollar, which are the best? I know, it’s totally unrelated to the original article, but this is just [...]
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