Dear Reader, During these last three months, I have been writing Letters to Voters. My partner and I wrote 1500 letters to Americans across the country and abroad. This activity kept our anxiety at bay. It was our form of door-knocking. Yesterday’s election results were not what we hoped for. Like many, we were heartbroken […]
The “Quarantine Challenge”
How are you managing to make sense of this COVID-19 global pandemic? I confess, I haven’t written a single letter in a long time. I feel so bummed-out by the coronavirus situation, the different government responses to it, the massive layoffs, and the resultant, ever-increasing world-wide death toll. I am overwhelmed AND often paralyzed […]
9 billion phone checks a day*
Ever wonder how much time you spend checking your phone on a daily basis? And how much does that all add up to in hours and minutes? In a recent survey of 8,000 people, the “Average daily screentime usage” was 3 hours. Most people spend between 1-4 hours on their phones. If you spend a […]
Mr. Boddington to the Rescue!
Teaching kids to hand-write letters the old-fashioned way, might sound like a step backward to some, but there are plenty of good reasons to encourage this effort. Let me count the ways… Within these last few years many published scientific studies have emerged warning us of the downside of our highly technological lifestyle. Aside from their […]