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While listening to a "pop" station at the urging of my kids, we heard the beginning of an intimately familiar song: "Time of My Life."  I started singing, because like the rest of us (40-ish year-olds) we know all of the words. Here's the exchange that followed: Me: "Wow, I can't believe they are playing this song!"  (As I begin singing aloud, every word) Kids: "What!?  How do you know THIS song!?" Me: "What are you talking about, this is from my generation - it's from the movie "Dir..." Before I could finish the word, I heard something very strange happening.  The song started to morph into something incomprehensible, some other "Dirty" phrase emanated from the speakers and all sorts of weird techno stuff was going on.  And right away, I reconsidered. Me: "Wait, maybe I don't know this song after-all.  Maybe it was a figment of my imagination..." As it turned out, I didn't know i...

Are you the type of person who likes to have a few books lined up so that once you're finished with one, you can swiftly and easily pick up the next?  Or would those books in-waiting drive you crazy, impatiently sitting there wondering how long it will take you to finish what you're reading? I like having a few lined up.  I love knowing there's another great suggested book sitting quietly on my night table or on a nearby shelf ready to be devoured.  In fact, with today's technology, I am able to "read" three books at once! There's the real deal, the paper and ink kind that I keep next to my bed.  Then there's the e-book-book that I transport with me from place to place out of sheer convenience (lighter and more accessible when traveling around).  Then, the most intriguing to me of late - the audiobook! I mentioned this method of reading in an earlier blog, but feel that I must again tout the benefits: I can listen while walking the dog, turning a...

Do you have a "Blackberry voice?"  Do you know what it is?  Well, I know what it is and I've been told that I have one. In the car at a stop light my daughter in the backseat was telling me a story.  I was checking my email on my Blackberry.  She went on about something at school and I was "listening" while texting and pressing "send." She then said, "So, what do you think?"  I had no idea what she had just said.  I said, "I don't know." She said, "You weren't listening.  Your were on your Blackberry.  I can hear it.  You are speaking in your Blackberry voice!" "What's a 'Blackberry voice?'" I asked as innocently as possible.  "Oh, you know, when you pretend you're listening, you respond to me, but I can tell you are doing something else, like texting or reading a text or emailing..." "Oh." I sunk. That's just terrible, was all I could think.  I have a Blac...