I recently hit a milestone that prompted deep reflection on the arc of my life: turning 50. I’m proud of maintaining friendships that span decades, and to celebrate I went on a tour to spend time with ...
A small but growing number of consumers, especially parents, want to bring back the old technology as an alternative to ...
“Old-fashioned” was the word one state official used to describe telephone books, the once ubiquitous source of reams of information. These days, though, when we let our “fingers do the walking,” as ...
The first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan. Matthew Komatsu via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went ...
I remember a few years back, as I rounded the corner on the gravel road on my way to refill the deer feeder in the draw below ...
On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. She picked up the ...
In a world that’s been made incredibly accessible thanks to technological advances such as texting and emailing, we’ll never stop appreciating a good old-fashioned phone call. No laptop or smartphone ...
Americans are leaving hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars on the table every year by not making one simple call to cut their bills in half. You’ve probably been there, staring at a stack of ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nestled in a neighborhood in East Nashville, Tennessee, is a phone booth that no longer rings but offers a bit of respite to those grieving a lost loved one. “There are ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: There’s a woman I’ve known for more than 40 years. We were close when our children were young, but we have not been in regular contact for many years. I still care a lot about her, ...
A group of artists and volunteers are using a disconnected public phone to help people cope with bereavement and loss. Known as wind phones - an idea that started in Japan - they give the chance to ...
Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, ...