What I Learned From My Digital Detox
By Kelly SaizI'm willing to bet that wherever you are right now, there are at least two or more screens in the same room with you. First, you're probably reading this on your phone, and then there's...
View ArticleWe Can Be Friends Without Being Facebook Friends
For TueNight.com by Rosemary Darigo(Graphic credit: Helen Jane Hearn)At least once a week, I invariably have a conversation that goes like this:My friend: “Jamie is so annoying! She won’t stop posting...
View ArticleThe ‘S’ Word You Can’t Live Without: Bringing Spirituality to the Workplace
Don't worry, this article is SFW. At the young age of 23, I found myself lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a stress-related illness and wondering how I'd gotten there. At that time I was a...
View ArticleHow to Keep Loving Someone
You have to love someone in the cracks between the big moments. You have to grab their hand when you're sitting on the couch watching Shark Tank together and you have to give them a little knowing look...
View ArticleA Young Woman’s Etiquette Guide to Coding
We are no longer in the age of etiquette dinners and coming of age balls, but rather have entered a beautiful era of programming and engineering. This is an essential guide crafted to teach young women...
View ArticleHow to Have a Threesome
You know because one is never enough.I mean, right now, you probably are having one and you don't even realize it.Sure you claim to be single, or maybe you're in a committed relationship, but I'm going...
View ArticleWhat Smart Phone Shaming Can Teach Us
Earlier this month an Arizona Diamondbacks cameraman captured a group of sorority girls more engaged with taking the perfect selfie than watching the baseball game. When the spectacle caught the...
View ArticleHow Embracing Our Computer Overlords Can Keep Us Healthy
Okay, so maybe we haven't yet reached the point where we are in the Matrix, but it is amazing to think how much technology has evolved into our lives on a day-to-day basis. Am I the only one here that...
View Article7 Unexpected Benefits of a Digital Detox
We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.Marshall McLuhanEverything we do is to better our lives. And like most of us, I can't imagine a world where we don't have the modern conveniences...
View ArticleRegular Sleep Helps Us Exercise Better
Many of us know that regular exercise helps us sleep better, but what I discovered is that it's a two-way street. Regular sleep also helps us exercise better. It's a truth that I felt, quite literally,...
View Article10 Sleep Technologies: How Much Snore for the Dollar?
Do you want better sleep? Of course you do. You know how bad it is to miss out on sleep, so it can feel like insult added to injury to read yet another newfound, devastating consequence of insufficient...
View ArticleWhy It’s Just So Hard To Be Old In America
There is much in the news these days about widespread discrimination in America — heartbreaking stories of police shooting unarmed black men, reports on the shameful rise of Islamophobic violence, and...
View ArticleWhy Are We Getting Angrier?
Have you seen it happening around you recently?You misjudge a right turn into traffic and force the person behind you to slow down. In the rear view mirror you see him screaming and aggressively...
View ArticleInsomnia and the Performance of U.S. Workers
A 2011 Harvard Medical School study found that insomnia was significantly associated with lost work performance, and when projected onto the entire U.S. workforce, the study estimates that the lost...
View ArticleExamining The Effects Of Mobile Phones On Kids And Teens
There's an ongoing sleep study that is of great interest to me, and I expect to many others as well: for the first time, scientists will be examining the effects of mobile phone emissions on sleep and...
View ArticleAn Inbox Full of Love — A New Thanksgiving ‘Thing’?
It might've been because all my friends knew my daughter had flown out of the nest just before the holidays. It might be that we're all just getting a little older and sappier — I don't know.But...
View Article8 Technological Tools I FINALLY Learned to Use That Changed My Life
Many of you will probably laugh at me while reading this article! But that’s okay – you probably should, because I admit that I sometimes still live in the Stone Age. You see, I am a self-proclaimed...
View ArticleWhat Your Fitbit Doesn’t Want You to Know
Got a fitness tracker? If not, perhaps there is one coming to you soon, under the proverbial Christmas tree. According to Gartner, more than 130 million of these devices got shipped out in the past two...
View Article5 Lessons I Learned About Courage and Letting Go While Hiking With My Family
Last year I hiked through the well-known Torrey Pines and the mountains of San Diego before I knew what I was getting into with my family. This was my first time I was hiking as a mother and I was...
View Article5 Ways to Avoid Getting Distracted While Driving
Stand at a busy intersection and most likely, you'll see numerous instances of distracted driving, or drivers engaged in other activities such as texting or talking on the phone. It seems like these...
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