I think we are moving away from the era of social media and into an era of online micro-communities. More intentional, less chaos. Smaller, but more valuable. More boundaries, more containment.
We were never made to read the unhinged thoughts of hundreds of strangers each day, but we were made to gather around fires with groups and share our stories.
If you are a young man (or women) who feels like their life is going nowhere, this is the article for you! This may be the most important thing I’ve ever written.
I was browsing a bookstore a few years back when I randomly struck up a conversation with a woman. She asked what I did for a living. I told her I’m a middle grade author.
Her eyes lit up. “Are your books here? I’ll get one for my daughter!”
So we went looking for my name on the shelves. And they actually had a few, which isn’t always the case. I handed one to her.
“Let’s see if they have a pen up front!” she said excitedly. “You can sign it!”
Well, by now, I was feeling like a celebrity.
Once I …
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Respectfully I’d rather read about the life cycle of mollusks than another essay on what someone learned from taking a social media break
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I’m sorry, but in what universe does it look like Biden is winning to you? “the democrats are once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”? Biden is losing handily to a convicted felon/adjudicated rapist/fraudster who wants to terminate parts of The Constitution. He, and anyone defending him, needs to wake up and realize he cannot win this election. He doesn’t have it and we’re all going to suffer for his delusions (or ego?).
