I’m at an awkward age. Young enough to cringe at fogey talk, but too old to recognize when I’m doing it myself. It helps that I have a husband who, when he reads one of my blogs that starts to enter old crank territory, will yell in to me, “Hey, Andy Rooney! You rock.” So, […]
Twitter, Go to the Head of the Class
I’m glad to see that Twitter got some love this week. It wasn’t looking good, when it was announced that the royal wedding would not be live-Tweeted and that an actor in the Facebook movie The Social Network, Armie Hammer’s grandfather personally knew Prince Charles. Facebook 1 Twitter 0 But then Osama bin Laden […]
Bad News Bearers
I have an on-again, off-again, love-hate relationship with my former employer The Vindicator. I am loyal to the core to all the newspapers who ever hired me, as well as to all things Youngstown, but now that I’m just another reader of that paper, I find myself being – well, just like another reader […]
Twitter Tweaks
I’m trying to keep up, really I am. My husband encourages me to stay abreast of new technologies (he seems sincere, but it’s possible that he just wants to say ‘breast’ in a serious conversation). So in an effort to be hip and not-dinosaur-like, I’ve done the following: I dove into Facebook and have reconciled […]