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A friend saw that I had posted some bird photos on Facebook this week and commented, “Hey! How are you? It’s been a minute!” 129,600 minutes, to be exact. From early January until the day after Easter, I was off social media completely. This was one of the requirements for a program in which I participated at my church called Magnify 90. It involves prayer, discipline, fasting and fellowship—all designed to help you turn your attention to God and strengthen your faith, a

One of my pet peeves is when a person makes a dramatic announcement on social media that they are leaving the platform. Then they linger for a few days, disappear for a few more days, and are back on social media a week or two later. I’m not sure why it annoys me. Maybe it’s because social media has made us all so convinced of our “importance.” So at the risk of annoying myself, here’s my own announcement: I’m deactivating my social media accounts on Monday, January 5 bec

Snowberry clearwing moth on native larkspur Jimmy and I don’t have a TV. We don’t need one. Our backyard is a nature documentary...