Are Cell Phones Listening?

Are Cell Phones Listening?

Are we ever really alone anymore? Our cell phones are with us more than a newborn baby. Seriously, the cell phone sleeps next to us, goes to the gym, grocery store, doctor appointments, walks, work, and probably the bathroom (we would never take our babies in there.)...
Power Outage Lessons And Tales

Power Outage Lessons And Tales

Summer heat is kicking in around our area, triple digits. It’s slightly unusual for the temps to be so high so early in the summer months. However, “unusual” seems to be the “usual” any more.  An unseasonably warm June or an unseasonably cool May, makes for an...
Tales of the Infamous iphone Battery

Tales of the Infamous iphone Battery

My iphone 6s has been my friend for over three years. Strangely, we rarely use the phone feature, the namesake and driver of the technology. Instead, our time together is spent sending A LOT of texts and a few long emails. We also take amazing pictures and edit them...
Daylight Saving Still Lives In My Clock

Daylight Saving Still Lives In My Clock

  My bedside table is home to stacks of waiting-to-be-read books, a lamp and a clock radio. I’m not even sure how hold my clock radio is, but it’s old technology I contemplate disposing of each time I dust. I don’t use the alarm or the radio. It’s overkill...
Texts vs. Calls

Texts vs. Calls

  I prefer texts versus phone calls. To me it’s just faster, more immediate and responsive. Very few of my friends answer their phones anymore, not at home and rarely a cell. SHE WILL respond to a text, however. She can’t help it. The text lights up the phone,...

Francie on YouTube

Four years ago, I didn’t know much about blogs or how the camera on my phone worked.  Now I know three platforms for blogging.  I have a camera app on my phone so I can edit photos creatively and easily.  I have a personal page and a blog page on facebook; I...