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Bulldogs in love: New movie tells dog wedding story

LOS ANGELES  — Fifty dog couples that won a photo contest will get their big-screen debut in a new movie about the wedding of two bulldogs. “The Dog Wedding” tells the story of Price and Queenie, bulldogs that meet and bond in a dog park. Their owners plan the doggie nuptials while fighting to save […]

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Internet speeds through stages of grief

Everything’s accelerated these days, and the same must be said for grief online. The Internet cycles through all five stages in as many tweets. We find it hurtling toward us: unavoidable, wall-to-wall. And then, before we’ve processed it, the grief’s already gone. In the five days since extremists slaughtered 129 people in Paris, millions of […]

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Study: Parents mostly positive about kids and technology

Parenting is never easy. But today’s parents have to grapple with technology in a way that no previous generation did. A new study by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) has found that most parents, 78 percent of those surveyed, think that technology will have a generally positive effect on their children’s futures, careers and […]

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Three ways to help yourself feel safe in an insane world

I’m reminded constantly that the world is a scary place. That if I go one block this way I need to be careful, or that I need to pay attention to the weather because there’s a big storm headed my way, and if I’m going to travel I should definitely use Purell. Or that if […]