• Picks for ‘26

    Wastin’ time

    This blog post was going to be about phone-free February, which I have failed at almost as miserably as Dry January. We’re nearly two weeks into the new month, and I’m afraid my digital detox and reconnection with real life will have to wait. (Sorry, Rebecca.) Instead, it’s a Wednesday morning in Southwest Florida, and I’m doing absolutely … nothing. To lift a common crossword clue, what’s a four-letter word for wasting time? “I-D-L-E.” That’s me on this Hump Day. But as British philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” This from the same genius who quipped, “Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the…