My son asked me about selecting a dental insurance plan while he is at college.  The options included choice of an HMO plan or a PPO plan, the difference being: less out-of-pocket (copay) cost but a more restricted collection of dental service providers for the HMO plan. This led to thinking about the general problem […]

Last Sunday my son Stefan and I went to IKEA in Brooklyn (Red Hook) to get the desk he had picked out after some weeks of shopping online and in the furniture showrooms.  I was puzzled about why we couldn’t order it online or over the phone until we got there and I saw their […]

I’ve been having so much fun with my son, Stefan, this summer.  He’s 13 1/2 and just entering high school in two weeks. He’s been taking swimming lessons, and we go swimming everyday at the Y.  And building a robot from parts we ordered from a project he found online. He’s also been learning programming […]