The great English writer E.M. Forster may have valued connection above all else, but for us 21st-century folks, disconnection is as necessary as connection for creating a healthy, happy life.
Hospitals, "Housewives," and eight other things we love this week:
Sometimes I even bug myself. Electronically. Like Nixon but with fewer expletives. Or like Tripp but with less incriminating sex. Fortunately for me, my self-surveillance is legal, on the up-and-up...
Let me get one thing straight right up front. I was just trying to live my life: stay connected to family, friends, and colleagues, get my work done, and eat three squares a day. Ordinary stuff, we...
Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. An arm-chair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk--that is all the furniture. And in the arm-chair there sits ...