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How I learned to stop worrying and love the bread machine
I have an uncomfortable relationship with technology. I’m conflicted about most of it – the car, the TV, the electric razor, even the “labor-saving” devices that populate our home. Oh, I use them....
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Is ditching the TV the secret to happiness?
A review of: Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets by Barbara Brock Published by Eastern Washington University Press, 2007 The statistics about television-watching in America...
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TV Turnoff Week
It’s National TV Turnoff Week. I participated last April and wrote about it here and here. I had a wonderful, relaxing week last time, but I decided not to participate this week for a multitude of...
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Stranded by Technology
Recently an older couple’s GPS system guided them down a remote, impassable forest road on their way from Portland to Reno. They ended up stranded in eastern Oregon in a foot and a half of snow for...
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Appropriate Technology
I recently visited Aprovecho, a 40-acre non-profit center about 15 miles south of where I live. They research green skills and sustainable living practices. They also tend a 1.5 acre garden;...
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Automation Nation
Credit: Arthur Rothstein, 1915-1985, photographer. Courtesy of Library of Congress. The supermarket near my house has five self check-out stations. Often one or two is down, and sometimes, you have to...
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12 Aha Moments in 2012
At the end of 2010, I shared 10 magic moments when someone said or wrote something that surprised or inspired me. Moments that made me say, “aha.” Now, as we say so long to 2012, I have 12 more for...
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Striking a Balance With Technology
Photo: Anita Ritenour When my sister spent a year studying abroad in Iceland in 1993, we had little contact with her. We spent a lot of money to call each other occasionally on a land line that hummed...
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Dispatches from Shanghai
Shanghai. Photo taken by Thomas Fischler. My sister Columbine is studying in Shanghai this summer, and she’s been sending me dispatches about the city and culture. I think a lot about urban life,...
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