MindSpinner

Watch out! I have a new laptop (no ordinary laptop) and a two-week spring break approaching. No more borrowing the kids’ eMac at 5:00 in the morning or when nobody’s sitting in front of it. No more passing over what wanted to be written because there’s no ready opportunity to sit down and hash it out. (Pen and paper don’t work so well for me anymore.) No more checking my mail through Yahoo and jotting only the quickest replies. Now I can sit on my bed and write whenever I make the time (beating back lesser claims upon it). I can download photographs and share them, upload and order those pictures my mother wanted of the kids, and find out what I want to know via the Internet without having to wait in line or deal with haphazard connections at school.

I’d rather cook dinner every night over an open fire than live without a laptop and an Internet connection. I’d rather wash clothes in the bathtub and hang them out on a line. Did I mention how grateful I am to have this extraordinary tool, this doorway to the world, this means to conversations that matter? Or how grateful I am that this dimension of my life is important not only to me but to people who care about me? WOW moment in progress here.