This past weekend I made the very conscious decision of limiting my social media intake. In fact, I limited intake of all media. At the start of this year, I made an effort to take breaks from the two social media platforms I frequent (Facebook and Instagram). After deleting the app from my phone, I…
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Mind Cleaning
In January, I had a massive reduction of my time spent on social media and, in particular, my phone. While I have all the random contraptions available to me--laptop, iPad, and desktop computer--I spend most of my screen time on my phone. I felt, with the new year, that I deeply needed a cleansing of…
The Quiet Season
Being the definition of a millennial, I was a preteen at the turn of the century and recall life without the internet and smartphones. As I became an adult and was given adult responsibilities and released into the world, technology was ever at the ready. I was on Facebook when you could only join with…
Resolute
There's something shocking when realizing a decade is done. Of course, decades have come and gone outside of the calendar year. Turning thirty, that's three decades done, and that happened in 2016. But there's something more final with 2019 coming to a close. I'm trying to be less flippant about the end of the year…