The excellent dystopian episodic series Black Mirror explores the dark underbelly of technology, especially of the social webs we weave. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32qWdOWrTo For longer than most, displaying my Luddite late-adopter tendencies, I used my cell phone only for phone-ly things: making calls. Even after getting a smart phone, I didn't do much more than text. Eventually,... Continue Reading →
I feel your pain: writing and the nature of experience
One of the things I loved about being a journalist was the excuse it gave me to dive deeply into subjects and lives I would never encounter otherwise. In the name of “getting the story” I did such things as going on patrol with the coast guard (albeit in a relatively tame New England town),... Continue Reading →
I am a casualty of the war between head and heart
After twenty-four years of getting nostalgic every time I hear Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” because I listened to it the morning after my husband proposed, I discover the song is about a break-up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqDq3eyTGck It seems the heart knows no logic. Or perhaps it’s the ear or the body’s musical core that are immune to... Continue Reading →
