Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.