Found a cool new website that takes your photos, apply effects, and inserts them into various scenes. Fun stuff – in fact, the site’s name is PhotoFunia. Check out a few of my favorite photographic creations – starting with an old shot of me and my big sister that looks like it’s in an antique book, and including putting one of my boys on a...

Just posted over on SheKnows.com about Trent Reznor’s new video interview that went live today. This is exactly the sort of video I’d love love love to make! (With Trent, definitely — but with any/all of my interviews, really.) And on that topic, I included a little message for the man at the end of the piece, ’cause I know he’s such an...

Over the past few years, I’ve been trying to scan in as many old family photos as possible — “old” meaning simply those before my own personal digital camera era. I knew I had some photos dating back to the 20s, but was surprised to find a few even older… from the mid- to late-19th century! Here’s one I found — and I love...

Someone was kind enough to have sent me a really interesting and kind of amazing theory on this photo of my son Quinn – a pic that showed early on how his mind worked a little differently (eventually diagnosed as autism): Here’s part of her note (actually sent to me as a comment on this site): My primary research interest is autism and so I had of course...

I’ve published something new — and not on my own site! It is an article written for entrepreneurs, called Snap Out of That Self-Help Stupor and Get to Work, and was posted this morning on BusinessWeek.com. Here’s a little screenshot, which you can click to see the whole piece: The article was linked from the site’s main page, and the even...

I finally finished my Amanda Tapping interview and posted it on SheKnows! Check it out: Amanda Tapping: From Stargate to Sanctuary This is actually just part 1 of the interview, which needed to go live pronto because the season finale airs tonight. There’s still Stargate to talk about, as well as some daily/family life stuff. The point of the interview was to...

I have given money to several charities over the years, but one of my favorite non-profits actually doesn’t require donations — but you are still able to help those in need. If you haven’t heard of Kiva, it’s an awesome concept: making small loans to teeny businesses in very underprivileged parts of the world. I’m such a fan, I wrote a...