Tag: Technology

  • Five Things That are Smarter Than Me

    Five Things That are Smarter Than Me

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    I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person. I can balance my checkbook, hard boil an egg, and navigate using real maps.  I’m teachable and love to learn new things. I can re-light the pilot on the water heater and reset the smoke alarm when the ribs sit too long under the broiler. I do logic…

  • Things That Go Ring in the Night

    Things That Go Ring in the Night

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    Video doorbells don’t always see everything   Fearless, I’m not. In fact, sometimes I’m a downright sissy. Not that I haven’t done brave things. After all, I birthed two children without so much as a Tylenol. And I’m not afraid of the dark, but sometimes I’m afraid in the dark. I don’t like things that…

  • Too Old to be Outdated

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    You are as old and as young as the words you speak. I try not to be lured into clicking those outrageous headlines in my browser’s sidebar. But as a slightly compulsive wordsmith, once in a while a great grammatical hook has me taking the bait. Recently, the article that caught my eye was “Outdated…

  • Selfies Are Not in My Skill Set

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    I Cannot Take a Decent Selfie if My Life Depended on It I can type 60+ words per minute and use an adding machine without looking at the keys. I do jigsaw puzzles, sew and embroider. Fluting a piecrust or stuffing a cannoli is well within my skill set. But I cannot take a decent…