by Rod | Nov 26, 2018 | Technology and Business / Food
Instead of making a fresh breakfast, I sometimes get lazy and buy my kids a breakfast sandwich, in all its processed glory. And I feel guilty when I do. We think of such fast food as unhealthful because of all the technology applied to create it. But take a step back....
by Rod | Nov 20, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
My introduction to my future mother-in-law: “Mom, this is my boyfriend.” “Honey, don’t joke like that.” My future mother-in-law assumed I, a white, Jewish, California native, couldn’t possibly qualify as a boyfriend to an ethnically Chinese woman raised on the island...
by Rod | Nov 16, 2018 | Technology and Business / Food
My family buys the fancy, half-dollar eggs with the complex label: GMO-free, soy-free, free-range, grass-fed, brown eggs at $6/carton. We spend four times what cheap eggs would cost to eat healthier. However, even our fancy eggs aren’t truly healthful. And most of the...
by Rod | Nov 8, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
Would my son grow up without a father? This was the decision I had to consider a few years ago. I chose to be a father—a committed, present, full-time father—and I moved to Delaware to be with my son. This meant I had to leave my career in the Netherlands and reinvent...
