Rodalena Rants: Facebook and God
Magnifying mirrors show us far more than we really want to see. Oh, Facebook thou art a cruel (read: often, far too honest) display of humanity’s failed attempts at humanity. How I love to hate you....
View ArticlePrayer and Pinterest
Sometimes I think I utilize prayer like I utilize the internet: it’s such a huge resource and I use it for one or two stupid things. I could be learning about that gigantic quasar they found that is so...
View ArticleRodalena Rants: Raising Homewreckers
This article came whizzing across my news-feed the other day: 22 Ways to Raise a Homewrecker I just don’t even know where to start. Maybe today’s date is the best place: it’s October 2013. Two....
View ArticleGush Gently
Christmas is in three days. If one believes what they see on the interwebs, most people’s homes smell of sugar cookies and look like a Hallmark card: trees (yeah-”trees”, plural. People have more than...
View ArticleFacebook, Neurochemistry, and the Value of Basic Human Kindness
A friend sent me an article about Facebook’s recent clandestine psychological experiment on a group of its participants. Knowing me as he does, he knew I’d want to write about it. Apparently, Facebook,...
View ArticleBooks that Move
Social media can be #sofrustrating. So, yeah, I got “tagged” by a friend on Facebook to list “Ten Books that Have Stayed With Me in Some Way“ (a Rather Vague distinction if ever there was one), and I...
View ArticleGoldfish Brains
I saw this and found it thought-provoking: Our collective attention spans are, according to this, shrinking to a little less than a goldfish thanks to social media. So much of marketing (the field in...
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