Happy Jolabokaflod!
For several years now, my wife and daughter and I have celebrated Jolabokaflod, the Icelandic tradition of giving books to each other on Christmas Eve. The phra...
Category: social
The frustrating (and futile?) search for ethical digital companies to support
My phone is dying. It’s a Samsung Galaxy S8, which was not quite the best one available from Samsung at the time, because I’m one of those types who...
Giving Tidal another shot
To say I enjoy music is a huge understatement. There is no other art that speaks to me so deeply in such a breadth of emotion. It’s more than just being g...
U.S. pharmaceutical ads be like…
Being in Canada, we get plenty of our entertainment from American sources. Sometimes on TV, that comes via American broadcasters who, of course, run American co...
Next level wordplay
There are times I’m struck by unexpectedly gorgeous art, be it a photograph or illustration or painting, as well as other arts, like writing. I’m no...
On staying informed enough
A few days ago I wrote about the personal issues I’ve dealt with of being full-to-overflowing with news and social media for years, and the peace and enjo...
Looking back on a month off of social media
Today marks the last day of my month away from Twitter and Mastodon (and Tumblr, which I recently realized I was still on). What I will or won’t do with T...
In search of the new “guys”
I read an interesting article this week about the growing problem of using the term “guys” when referring to a group that isn’t strictly male ...
Happy I’m off Facebook, and Twitter is probably next
I recently wrote about my choice to take a one-month hiatus from all social media (or rather, the scant social sites I’m on these days), and how that̵...
A funny thing happened on my way to quitting social media for a month
Social Medialess October isn’t a thing. But perhaps it should be. I finally quit Facebook a handful of months back after long intending to ditch it for go...