I have two great-grandsons, both about a year old. Their "reading" material is far different from their parents' or their grandparents' or great-grandparents' first books. If they pick up a magazine with colored pictures or illustrations, they poke the pictures--repeatedly--wanting them to move or do something other than just lie there. Magazines are like broken tablets to them. (And here's where the generation gap really shows up. Tablet to the older generation is a thin, rectangular, paper pad we got when we started school. We acted on it, it didn't do anything except record our work. The tablets (electronic) the wee ones see first are magical items. One poke of their little fingers, and they change--go from plain text to photographs or music videos.
This morning's WashPost has an interesting article on how reading online is affecting how we read offline.
There doubtless will be an article soon on how cooking (food preparation) is changing in the face of all the technology involved. I predict, though, that cooking and cookbooks are here to stay. In a moment of madness last weekend, I bought an egg salad sandwich and a bottle of green juice from Starbucks. $6!! OY. Cook at home and save big money!! More of us need to economise than can throw money around at restaurants and coffee shops.
It's hard not to eat out when working or traveling. We eat out once a week or so when we are at home. We seldom buy coffee or small food items. The cost of those can really add up.
ReplyDeleteSmiling...Someone said--when the blossoms finally arrived around the Tidal Basin this spring--that spring is "tenacious." As is earth. As are we. I don't know what the point/click brains will be like; I just try to have faith that they will discover their humanity, as ours did.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yup yup yup, Hattie is right about the cost of coffee...Take it from an addict!
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have found an excellent snack for travels: yogurt! CVS has fruit-flavored yogurt in small containers, for $2.79, and they also have plastic spoons available by the checkout. Just the thing to drive hunger pangs away, and it's something I can't make at home for less.
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