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These days, you have to make smart decisions about the amount of ‘noise’ you allow into your life - if you want to have any real life at all.

I love the computer, especially word-processing. For some of us who do constant editing and rewrites, it makes the grunt work of writing so much easier and less a distraction from the mental flow. I also like being able to see things and access information from all over the world that I couldn’t see otherwise.

And I have a little cell phone; but in the many years that I’ve had it, I’ve probably made six or eight calls on it - usually to call a cab. I just use it to listen to radio, and to have in case of emergency. I don’t even carry it most of the time.

I’ve never once experienced any lack because of this refusal to become thoroughly ‘au courant’ electronically.