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We Listen and We Don’t Judge
What is your favorite genre of music? My middle school students asked me one time what my favorite song is. I asked them to be more specific. Like, what is my favorite country song? Or what is my favorite pop song? My favorite song from the 90s? Boy band song? Rap? They were insistent that… →
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A Good Distraction
The baseball game we went to today was fun! There was a true Sandlot moment when the city shot off their fireworks display sometime around the 6th inning. The stadium had their own show planned for after the game. But there the fireworks were, in the middle of the game, in true Sandlot fashion. The… →
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Ah the 90s…
I got a text from my mother this afternoon that I feel compelled to share given the prompt about technology today. She sent me the following picture and accompanied it by saying “Look what I found! And it still works!” Let me tell ya’ about this little device. First, for context, it is a handheld… →
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The Matrix. Dot Matrix.
Write about your first computer. Picture it…Christmas morning. 1994. I walk out of my bedroom to see a faux wood computer stand with a hutch and little cabinet doors covered in a big red ribbon and bow. I was so excited. I don’t even know what kind of computer it was. IBM was somewhere on… →
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The Power of Sound: Emotion and Memory
Yesterday, a comment made by my husband gave me pause. He was telling me about his reaction to text alerts. That got me thinking about the power of sounds. Until recently, like him, I had a very negative reaction to hearing my phone ring or my text notification sounding. Quite honestly, the sounds would give… →
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That’s Just Good Music
I’ve been driving my husband’s car lately because mine is being held hostage by a Kia dealership 4 hours away supposedly getting a new engine (side note: don’t buy a Kia!). My car did not have a fancy touchscreen display on the dashboard like my husband’s newer car. Mine only displayed text in very small… →
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Christmas Nostalgia
Johnny Mathis is Christmas, to me anyway. Apparently he has albums that aren’t full of Christmas music, but I wouldn’t know anything about them. My parents had every single one of his Christmas albums on cassette tape and they played on repeat in the background of every Christmas throughout my childhood. It was the soundtrack… →