Not everyone loves a road trip, and especially not a road trip alone. I love them, though. I loaded my phone with all 12 episodes, plus the extra notes, of Season One of the Up and Vanished podcast for my drive home from Georgia today. My girlfriends talked about their new obsession with true crime … Continue reading Solitary car rides
We went a lot of years without electronic road-trip entertainment for the kids. No game systems, no iPods, no DVD players. The closest we got to new technology was listening to books on CD instead of books on tape. And even then we listened to quaint titles like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. This … Continue reading Precious Gifts: Electronics
One of the most challenging aspects of this commitment to post every day for seven consecutive days has not been the writing. The biggest challenge, especially for a perfectionist, has been practicing restraint in editing. I felt kind of ridiculous when I publicly accepted the Daily Post challenge in my “Buts” piece. I knew we … Continue reading The challenge of the challenge: not editing.
We went a lot of years without electronic road-trip entertainment for the kids. No game systems, no iPods, no DVD players. The closest we got to new technology was listening to books on CD instead of books on tape. And even then we listened to quaint titles like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. This … Continue reading Precious Gifts: Electronics
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