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Busy isn’t always bad

Christina Sayut | Monday, September 18, 2023

Recently, someone looked at my Google Calendar and immediately gasped. “Why are you so busy?” I laughed and said, “Oh I don’t feel busy.” She pointed at my computer screen and asked me where I had free time to be by myself, and I looked and just shrugged my shoulders. It honestly doesn’t exist —

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What if someone gave up their phone for Lent?

Jimmy Ward | Thursday, March 5, 2020

This Viewpoint column really snuck up on me. As I brainstormed ideas of what I could write about with so much going on in the global scene and scrolled through Twitter, I was reminded of my sacrifice for Lent. My goal was to reduce my screen time. Usually when I check my phone I am

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Why I’ll never switch to Google Calendar

Claire Rafford | Tuesday, March 19, 2019

My mom showed me her impeccably organized schedule on iCloud and Google Calendar over spring break. Every category of her life — social, work and family — had a coordinated color, a little box assigning a task to her day. It seemed like a great system, but when she offered to show me how it