brain health

I wrote an article for Sixty and Me in 2020 entitled Don’t Be Afraid to Do Something Badly… At First. It was inspired by the boredom associated with the pandemic restrictions, resulting in having far too much idle time. A friend, also struggling with boredom, suggested the topic for the article, having encountered some resistance … Read more

We used to read 300-page novels and fall asleep to the shipping forecast. Now we’re told that our attention spans are shrinking, that we can’t handle more than a ten-second reel on our phones. And yet my own phone cheerfully reports two to four hours of screen time a day. We binge entire box sets … Read more