Low Tech Girl In A High Tech World

Many of the posts that make up this blog talk about how I have a love-hate relationship with technology. It's true. There are days that I hate technology (such as the day that I put a file on my ebook that I cannot get off, no matter how hard I try) or the day that my cell phone stopped working well and I started getting the runaround from my cell phone company (but that is a whole other post in and of itself). But I must admit, these days I am loving it a little more than I normally do. My husband is in the military and we have been dealing with a posting that has taken him away from the home. Quite far away. Although he is still in the country, the distance makes regular visits home almost impossible. The cost of airfare is high enough that it really is not a viable alternative for a weekend visit. In the past, technology has helped us to stay in touch when he has been deployed and, although spotty and intermittent at best, it was good to know that a message could get through rea...

I am curious how many of us avoid unpleasant things. Unpleasant things that we know we need to do, and will get around to eventually. I know I tend to, although I am trying to get better about it. Confronting things head on, taking the bull by the horns kind of things. I must admit though, this blog post is partially an attempt to avoid doing something unpleasant, and partly an attempt to ease into the work without it being overly painful. Today, one of my work assignments is to write about death, and specifically to produce some sample eulogies. Ick. Death is never a fun topic although I have learned to write about it objectively. I was able to get through writing the articles on grief, on planning funerals, on cremation. But not the eulogies. Having written one this summer for my grandmother, you might think that I would be able to do this quite easily. I did think that there would be no problem whatsoever with me doing this. And yet, today, when I sat down at the keyboard to try and...