You know the old adage about the cobbler’s children going barefoot? Well, sometimes that is me. Not that I make shoes, but as a tech person, a social media and digital consultant and teacher, and a writer, I’m always advising people to do this and that. But it seems I don’t always follow my own advice. …
Technology at midlife
I’m not kidding. This is the email I received from Walmart the other morning: “Dear Linda, At Walmart we take your security and privacy very seriously. We use a variety of services and tools to help protect you, and our monitoring suggests someone might be trying to take advantage of your account. As a precaution …
Vilma is a freelance writer who can be found at That Girl is Back celebrating who she is as she journeys through midlife. This post was originally featured there. “Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau I’ve adapted to technology but I do recall a time where documenting every restaurant meal, …
Meryl can be found blogging regularly at Six Decades and Counting…Life Reinvented. The fact that I am not smarter than a fifth grader is not easy to admit, but it is true. Not only am I not smarter than most kids nowadays, but also am increasingly out of sync with the world, or at least …
Pat writes over at pattymackz.com and you can find the original version of this post there. While most people have been using smartphones for ages, I finally inherited a hand-me-down iPhone 5 from my husband’s secretary. At long last, I possessed that amazing little gadget that can do everything but wipe my backside. I can …