boredom

While still adjusting to retirement, I was watching the 2016 Summer Olympics one recent evening when I was struck by a television ad. It was selling audible books, not just for adults, but also for kids — a father and his two children “transported to an imaginary world” as they sat side-by-side in bed listening…

As I prepare to retire at the end of this month, I wish to share some reflections and concerns which arose from my reading of a rather profound book. The book is called Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle, Ph.D., Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of…