It’s been one month since I deleted my Facebook page, and I have never felt better. I’ve taken breaks before, but somehow I’d always end up logging back in. I made a billion excuses about why I needed it: work, “connecting” with family and friends, finding takeout menus, keeping track[Read More…]
Tag: Millennial Musings
Millennial Musings: Anything you can do, I can do better?
RBC I “Anything you can do, I can do better,” was a common refrain among my siblings and I. We were exposed to it not from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, as one might imagine–our interests ran more towards repeated viewings of the extended Lord of the Rings[Read More…]
OPED: Getting ‘real’ for 2019
RBC | I did it, folks. Three whole weeks without Facebook. I ventured back on for the first time Christmas morning and while it was nice to see and hear from people, I realized I haven’t missed anything worthwhile. I seem to be craving a deeper connection these days, so much[Read More…]
Shanghaied by the attention engineers {Millennial Musings}
RBC | Have you ever heard of attention engineers? They are technological geniuses hired by big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter whose sole purpose is to get you to spend as much time as humanly possible using their product. As the adage goes, nothing is really free. We pay[Read More…]
Life is like a roller coaster, and that’s OK
RBC | When I was 13 or so, I went on a youth trip to Elitches in Denver. It was a big deal. I, a shy homeschooled pastor’s kid, was to be released into the amusement park wilds with a bunch of other irrational teens. (Okay, okay, with a one to[Read More…]
