by Rod | Dec 19, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
Do you want to enter your new calendar year . . . as children? “I’M RIGHT!” “No! I’M RIGHT!” That argument wakes my wife and me most Sundays. I’ll drag myself out of bed and stare downstairs at the two red-faced toddlers below. “Play together nicely or you have to...
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 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...
by Rod | Oct 15, 2018 | Technology and Society / Culture
Please help spread the word My heart is beating 135 miles an hour, and I’m writing this email in the two-minute blocks I can sit in my chair before getting too antsy. We’re launching a fantastic initiative. Extending the Family invites American Business onto...