Dinah Eng's blog

Okay. Valentine’s Day is over. But the need to celebrate love is not.

From the moment we’re born, love is what keeps us alive. The love of parents, surrogate parents, and extended family validate our existence long before we start thinking about soul mates and partners for life.

Pre-schoolers may not know that they’re learning valuable lessons, but they sure love to rock with “Jake and the Never Land Pirates.”

Every song in the new Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joyful Noise” stands on its own as a piece worth listening to, a feat due in no small part to five-time Grammy Award winner Mervyn Warren, the film’s composer and music producer.

If you’re sitting around the dinner table with family when an argument breaks out, you may or may not speak up, depending on how often you were told to be quiet as a child. Ditto for sitting around that conference table at work and speaking up if you disagree with the boss.

My nieces and nephews range in age from three years old to 17, and while they tend to be glued to their iPads, Nintendo DSs and iPhones, I try to distract them now and then with a good book.

Daniel Lamarre, president and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, is a businessman who understands that in any enterprise, dollars and people sense must work together if creativity is to thrive, and profits are to grow.

The future may be filled with technology-driven toys, but nothing will connect us more than personal interactions.

The great thing about giving gift cards is they’re easy to mail to folks in other cities, they give the recipient the opportunity to buy whatever he or she wants, and the good ones usually don’t have an expiration date.

The bad thing about gift cards is that they’re vulnerable to theft in ways we rarely think about.

Love, forgiveness, hope and new adventures beckon every time we turn the calendar page to a new year, and director Garry Marshall’s ode to “New Year’s Eve” reminds audiences that at any moment, we all can create our lives anew.

My father has slowed down markedly this year. After a heart attack last year, and a recent fall, he started walking with a cane, moving at a snail’s pace. But like many senior citizens, he refuses to admit that anything has changed.