Smart Phones

Does it make me a bad person to admit I would have loved to have access to a smart phone and watch when I was in school? Soon, students at a Missouri high school will get to experience learning like I did as those devices will be banned.

Cell phones are in the news again. A year ago Samsung recalled 1 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in the United States, replacing or refunding the phone because their susceptibility to catching fire. Now doctors are warning people about sight problems by using them as well.

There are a lot of things that "everybody" does. Everybody watches the Super Bowl (actually, I didn't for over a decade, but recently started watching again). Everybody drives (I've known two people, elderly people, who never drove). Everybody eats out from time to time (nope... I knew a person in their 50's who never had been in a restaurant). Fact is, there is nothing that "everyb