Latest NewsWired Wednesdays: Curses, My Phone Won’t Wink April 4th, 2018 My ex-husband*, our two grown kids and I recently switched from AT&T to Verizon for our cell service. [*A marriage may end, but a family cellular plan goes on!] In the process I got a new free LG smartphone. As I was familiarizing myself with my new phone—blessedly similar to my former Android—I was bummed […] The Missing Vagina Monologue: Own Your Super-Power! March 19th, 2018 I’ve been burying the lead, as they say, for some months now: I have joined the faculty of New Earth University, an international community that brings together creative curriculum, conscious collaboration and meaningful resources into a gorgeous, paradigm-shifting learning model. This development really deserves its own post, and life has simply been too busy to […] Master of Your iDomain: Who Controls Your Attention? January 10th, 2018 At the end of each issue of my favorite weekly news digest The Week is a 2-page section called “The last word.” It features a substantive (polite word for “long”) piece of extraordinary writing. In the final issue of last year they ran this article on digital life and attention by Craig Mod, a must-read for folks mindful enough […] iMPATIENCE and iMPULSIVENESS: Deadly Effects of Wired Life? November 15th, 2017 This one’s personal, folks. It’s one thing to recognize the discouraging association between smartphones and impatience, and it’s a whole other thing to experience that impatience on a daily basis in a potentially deadly way. Creeping along a clogged-up patch of the 101 freeway on a recent trip to Los Angeles, I was gob-smacked to see […] |
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