By Margaret Evans, Editor

Hey, parents... we survived another back-to-school week! The #2 pencils have been sharpened, the backpacks stuffed, the endless forms filled out and the dreaded uniforms tucked in.

And that was the easy part.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Recently, I was offline for almost two weeks. Though happily disconnected, I was strangely disconcerted, upon my return, to find the virtual world completely intact. On Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, life goes on – with or without you. A person can disappear, then reappear, with no fanfare whatsoever. You just drop off the face of the digital earth . . . then drop back in.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Dear Reader,

Your weary correspondent is writing to you from the middle of Water Festival. No, I'm not sitting smack dab in the center of Waterfront Park; I'm at my house. But it's Wednesday morning – the festival's halfway point – and I am already very, very tired. Downtown at our office overlooking the park, we've been partying like it's 1999. I was much younger in 1999.