Advanced age comes with all sorts of wisdom, but no shortage of challenges. Some are physical, some not. Covid-19 has been particularly unkind to older people. Not only have they been disproportionately at risk for getting the disease, but they are also often less...

We know we’ve got big issues to tackle … racism, unemployment and a nasty virus, but life’s smaller inconveniences can still rankle. And this summer is going to look very different, especially if you’ve got kids at home. Three months of unstructured free play was a...

One percent is a rounding error. It is a penny on the dollar. It is also the percent of venture funding to date for Black founders. Will the protests that began as a response to the death of George Floyd and escalated into a sustained nationwide cry for racial...

Before the pandemic less than 10% of the American population had tried telehealth services. Most of us felt telehealth generally wasn’t much more than a doctor-directed self examination.  “Where does it hurt?  Do you have a fever? ”  A typical session via companies...

The gold rush is on to move live events and conferences online. New companies that promise to make online events more satisfying than a crowded hotel are sprouting like weeds. But ask 10 event producers which platform they’re using for their online shift and you’ll...

It’s only been 6 weeks since most large gatherings and events were canceled. Yet they seem so quaint now, even viscerally unnerving, when I look at images of large groups of handshaking people. Of course live events aren’t going away permanently. But the last few...

I became a John Krasinski fangirl from his first episode of SGN, Some Good News. The show is shot from the home office of the former cast member of The Office who now plays CIA officer Jack Ryan in the show of that name on Amazon Prime. But at his own SGN, he plays...

I’ve been spending my isolation in NY’s Hudson Valley, in the shadow of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge between Hudson and Catskill.  Rip Van Winkle, if you remember the Washington Irving story, is a lovable but lazy farmer who escapes from his nagging wife to head off on a...

I have spent years futzing around with WebEx, GotoMeeting, UberConference, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and other assorted ways to make video calls and conferences. But for me it was love at first Zoom. I know I’m not alone. The last time I was so taken with...

As Covid-19 spread and global society retreated to the safety of homes, more than 1.4 billion students worldwide suddenly found themselves booted out of the classroom. That began a scramble to create or adopt a makeshift curriculum that could be delivered online. The...