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Submitted by Jerry on Thu, 06/19/2014 - 3:08pm

To correct one more mistake

People say eight-year-olds can learn to navigate Facebook in just minutes. Either such children are geniuses or I'm a dummy. Patience, please.
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Submitted by Jerry on Thu, 06/19/2014 - 12:03pm

Maiden Voyage

Laugh, you who have heard me go on ad nauseam about the fruitlessness of social networking. Why, I'd query to anyone who would listen, could anyone who was obsessed with time take up so much of it in virtual communication with their friends? I should have realized, shouldn't I, that it is those who rant the loudest who will inevitably succumb. So, with that I-told-you-so reaction as you read this, you may wonder what it is that's brought me to my knees, why, in the end, I've decided to join you here on Facebook.

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About Gerald Neufeld

Heather, my sweet wife, likes to talk about the difference between a passion for something and a compulsion. Is she concerned that I spend less time making goodies in the kitchen that she likes and that I see too little sun? Is she worried about the accumulation extra pounds and my growing attachment to my keyboard? Thank who or whatever created this wild world of ours that she cares. Otherwise, I might find myself one day permanently adrift in one of those fictitious worlds we novelists inhabit.

Lest I convey the wrong impression about my spouse, she is my greatest supporter, the lady who, almost daily, insightfully feeds back to me about my ideas. No writer could want a better muse.
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Last Updated: June 6, 2014

 

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