Flakey Bible

Recently I've been noticing flakes. Flakes on my bed, on my desk, in my lap. No, it's not blue and gray dandruff. It is flakes from my Bible. The once pretty "leather" covering seems to not like being carted from Air Conditioned America to Hot as Hades Africa to Rainforest Southeast Asia. It is flaking...everywhere. I don't want to get a new Bible because my parents gave me this one for Christmas in 2006 and I have marked in it and written notes in the margin. But as I brushed away the flakes, I thought about my Flaky Bible and I wondered if the meaning of the passages I read were "rubbing off on me" like the cover that was flaking off on me. Do others notice the "flakes" that remain around me and around the house long after I spend time in the Word?  What about you? Is your Bible flakey?

10 Reasons Why I Am a Digital Immigrant

My son is taking Digital Citizenship in high school. He informed me that he is a Digital Citizen and that I am a Digital Immigrant. That's code for, "We let you use our awesome digital stuff but our products will constantly remind you that you don't actually belong here." While depressing, I have to admit that it is true. Here are a few reasons why.


THE TOP TEN REASONS WHY I AM A DIGITAL IMMIGRANT

#10 I prefer my cheap and simple phone and I am not just saying that because I can't afford a nice one (even though I can't)

#9 I have fond memories of dial-up (at the office we even had a toggle switch on the wall to transfer the line from phone to computer!)

#8 I miss the smell of books (can't they have a scratch-and-sniff app for that?)

#7 I need Aaron to come home and help me figure out my computer program, and no, Son, I don't want to do it over Skype, I need an actual person to sit here beside me and help me.

#6 I hate updates for programs, I liked it the way it was, that's why I got it in the first place. Why did you have to go and change it?

#5 My kids have a question about the computer and they say, "Hey Mom...oh...never mind," and then they figure it out on their own.

#4 I don't know what hash tags are. And yes, I've had it explained to me but it still sounds like something illegal.

#3 When buying Aaron a wireless keyboard for his iPad, I got excited and blurted out, "I am so happy we were able to buy Aaron his typewriter." Yes, I said it loudly in the middle of the store. Typewriter? How far back in the recesses of historical vocabulary did my mind have to reach to find THAT word?

#2 I get confused and try to punch a button on my computer screen with my finger like it is a touch screen.

and the #1 reason why I am a digital immigrant is that...

#1 I still get homesick. While I love and appreciate all the snazzy gadgets, this immigrant still gets homesick for a pen that has ink, not a rubbery bulb that simulates a finger tip, and notebook paper and the feel of a (real) book in my hands.