I started this blog right around the time Apple launched Siri, a voice-activated personal assistant who has a response to most questions or comments you speak into your new iPhone:  “Siri – I’m hungry.  Where can I get food around here?”  Her answer:  “I have located 18 restaurants in your immediate vicinity.  They are…”   Or, my kids’ favorite:  “Siri, I love you”  to which she’ll respond, “Oh.  Stop it.”  (If you haven’t seen Siri in action, click on the video below.)

Of course, there are many things that Siri can’t interpret.  And this blog is about some of those uniquely human experiences that make up this one blogger’s life.

My name is Barbara, and I live on the Lower East Side.  I’m a mom, outnumbered in our NYC apartment by three loving and thoughtful – if somewhat boisterous – guys.   I work with human rights activists from around the world by day and teach at a university by night.   (Sorry Siri – I also have an old clunker of a cell phone!)

Life can feel a little crazy over here at times, but writing helps me slow down and gain perspective.  I learned that last year when I wrote a blog called Last Year To Live, in which I recorded observations in living while my close childhood friend was living out her final year.

Now I’m back, and hoping you’ll come along for this new leg of the journey.  I especially love to blog about tips for transforming our children into socially responsible global citizens.  All of our futures depend upon it!

Leave a comment, and let me know who you are.  Do you blog too?  I’d love to follow your work.

Thanks so much for reading!