Technology
Modern technology and electronics are pushing us to alter language. Here are some ways handwriting can help us in our everyday lives.
Read...Thank you, Isolde, for making me pause, for encouraging me to ditch the pocket computer for conversation with someone new.
Read...Technology is allowing people to build communities that matter to them, that help keep them safe, and remove isolation. Technology is the new self-care!
Read...No shame. No room for good, old-fashioned, parent-shaming from ignorant onlookers who may have assumed my husband and I are too weak to ignore the siren call of easily portable Apple products in order to avoid having to actually converse with one another when out in public.
Read...Work. Play. Sleep. Repeat. Thanks, bed. You are the furniture MVP in this house.
Read...My phone is now silent by design, but I’m still nostalgic for the days when single people met off-line. I long for genuine closeness and sustained concentration, including my own. I’ve become a person who is perturbed if I text and receive a phone call in reply. I’ve gotten lax in making in-person time for people when I have the ability to consume snippets of their lives online between Netflix originals.
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