One of the habits of highly sensitive people it seems is to take a long time to process something. I often describe it to my therapist as understanding what just happened when I’m already two miles away. I see the activating event in the rear view but at this point there’s nothing I can do about it. It reminds me of George Constanza’s famous line in Seinfield: that’s what I should’ve said.

These days, almost everyone has the ability to use technology to share your child’s personality with the world. We can post pictures on Instagram. We can write stories about our child and the funny things they say on Facebook. Mini-conversations written like plays on Twitter. YouTube videos, like the one I made that went viral a few years back, can show a chid’s budding intellect. Most of the ways in which we use technology around our kids are about putting them on display.

+++ title = “05” date = 2019 +++ I love hibachi food, like Benihana. So much that I always ask to go there on my birthday. It’s like a little journey for me, and the white sauce is nearly perfect. From the moment we arrive, it’s already a party atmosphere. I get to sit next to some people I don’t know, who have annoying kids but seem as excited to be there as I do.

On the first day of Kindergarten, my teacher told all of us newbies that we were in the process of creating a building. That we could think of each thing we learned as a brick in that building. And by the time we got to the high school, our building would have a roof, and we’d be able to use the building to create new opportunities for ourselves. And yesterday, I heard the quote that we are the architects of our own experience.

One of the questions I used to ask anyone whom I respected was: what is the meaning of life? I got some interesting and memorable responses from this activity. John Mayer said comfort (which I suppose is arguable). Matt Nathanson said travel (he even wrote it on the dead guitar tuner he gave to me at that show). Not all of these interactions have gone as well. For instance, I asked physicist Michio Kaku this when I met him at a book signing a number of years ago.