I have this issue with thinking everything that happens has some bigger meaning. For the past few days, I’ve been fretting about my iPhone. You’d think the thing was a family member or something. I was at a museum with my kids, and when I went to the bathroom, my phone slipped out of my [...]
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In Gary Shteyngart’s humorous, futuristic novel, Super Sad True Love Story, the characters are horrified by the smell of real books. They do all their reading—but mostly, shopping—on the small devices strung around their necks. And in the City Room Blog of the New York Times yesterday, Lisa Lewis begged, “Ladies and Gentlemen, take out your [...]
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This post falls into one of those categories I call “bourgeois concerns.” My husband is a former Marxist who once told a man that I’m a Bolshevik, so please forgive me. (I am not really a Bolshevik.) Tomorrow, that former-Marxist husband and I head south for a couples-only vacation. We will read and eat at [...]
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Featured on this blog the other day was a post about how women–particularly moms–are targeted negatively by news media regarding their use of technology. And while that’s true, it can’t hurt to look at ways to help us develop longer attention spans and less compulsive behavior when it comes to small metal devices. You know [...]
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This past weekend, I took Mr. B to look at some old trains in Lancaster, otherwise known as Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It’s always a shock to come upon rolling green hills, horses and buggies, silos attached to farm houses, men with long beards and suspenders. You feel, immediately, like you are transported in time. It’s [...]
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For compulsive avid readers of fiction, few books accomplish the goal of changing the way one looks at the world. Few stories invent characters and plots you tell your friends about, details you remember so clearly, they weave their way into your consciousness as you go about your daily activities. As an English teacher with a [...]
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If you’ve seen the 1941 movie Citizen Kane (a movie considered by some to be the best of all time), you may remember the scene where Charles, newspaper pioneer, and his first wife, Emily, sit across their long breakfast table reading newspapers. The table is vast, as is their estate, and they are on opposite [...]
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