Published July 19, 2018 in Warp & Woof School’s Out! Even Family Day Care Gets Summer Vacation William Sundwick It happens every year. This is Owen’s second summer vacation from the family day care provider in his neighborhood. Grampa and GiGi volunteered to take three days out of the facility’s five-day closure. We played, weContinue reading “School’s Out!”
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Pollen Comes from Trees
Published May 17, 2018 in Warp & Woof “Pollen Comes from Trees” How Language Transformed The “Terrible Twos” William Sundwick Language is power. It both requires a certain level of cognitive development and enables further cognitive development. The last entry in Warp & Woof that described my grandson was entitled “Glimpsing the Terrible Twos.” SevenContinue reading “Pollen Comes from Trees”
Maybe I’m Not So Great, After All?
Published May 10, 2018 in Warp & Woof Maybe I’m Not So Great, After All? Coming to Grips with Privilege William Sundwick “If they had to walk in my shoes.” How many times have we thought this to ourselves? Even if we don’t verbalize it, we’re looking for sympathy. Often, the burdens placed on usContinue reading “Maybe I’m Not So Great, After All?”
Link from Prevention
“Moral Struggles: Humility vs. Narcissism” — Sept. 28, 2017 post — revisited
How I Hate My Gym
Published April 19, 2018 in Warp & Woof How I Hate My Gym Let Me Count the Ways William Sundwick I’ve been a member at my gym for ten years. I faithfully follow a 4-day, 160-minute per week cardio workout routine. And, I added back-strengthening equipment two or three times each week (anticipating carryingContinue reading “How I Hate My Gym”
Courage, Determination, Strength
Published April 2, 2018 in Warp & Woof Courage, Determination, Strength Face-to-Face with Disability Awareness William Sundwick We knew about her disability. We had hosted her in our home once before, three years ago, for a different event in Washington. But this time was different. Activism was her primary motive. The earlier event had beenContinue reading “Courage, Determination, Strength”
Link from Wired
Long form piece from Wired gives entire history of Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg’s, struggles over last two years. Reference: “My Struggle with Facebook Addiction” from December. I, for one, have not yet seen any change in my Facebook news feed since the famous manifesto promising “time well spent” with the platform. Still dominated by mindlessContinue reading “Link from Wired”
Link from Washington Post
WaPo article supports argument from my December post: “My Struggle with Facebook Addiction” — FOMO is a big deal, here focusing on students, but the rest of us, I maintain, can also be so afflicted!
My Struggle with Facebook Addiction
Published December 26, 2017 in Warp & Woof My Struggle with Facebook Addiction Not a Teenager, But a Senior William Sundwick In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World(1932), the World State exercised control over its population by administering a “soma” drug to them. It was a psychoactive drug, producing states of euphoria, and generalContinue reading “My Struggle with Facebook Addiction”
Flirting: Fun? Cheating? Harassment?
Published November 15, 2017 in Warp & Woof Flirting: Fun? Cheating? Harassment?It’s Really About Power William Sundwick Recently, we’ve all been subjected to a barrage of celebrity sexual malfeasance, both in politics and entertainment, men are caught in truly heinous instances of sexual abuse and harassment. It appears that nothing has changed about men’s awfulContinue reading “Flirting: Fun? Cheating? Harassment?”
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