Posts tagged as:

technology

Confessions of an Internet Addict

by Amanda on July 26, 2008

Dear readers,While I was at the beach, I realized that I, Amanda Hirsch, am an Internet Addict.My name is Amanda Hirsch, and I am addicted to the Web.It started out innocently enough. …

{ 3 comments }

I just can’t quit you

by Amanda on June 26, 2008

…no, wait – I can.I’m quitting Twitter. It’s official. At least for the summer. On vacation, I realized how much of a time suck it is for me, and how much more rewarding it would be to save up all those 1-minute increments of Twitter time and turn them into writing time.How can you claim more time for something that really matters to you?

{ 5 comments }

Reboot

by Amanda on June 19, 2008

I just got back from vacation – from the best vacation I can remember ever taking. It was a true escape, not just a geographic journey or an immersion in someplace new, but a leaving behind of all the junk that had been building …

{ 2 comments }

I came upon this “picture poem” by Kenneth Patchen on the website of my former English professor, Al Filreis. I love Patchen’s story (which Al tells) because he didn’t let physical limitations keep him from creating. Hearing stories about people with that …

{ 1 comment }