#DigitalDetox Update for March 2022

Posted on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022

#DigitalDetox Challenges 9 Through 16. I’ve been busy!

Posted on December 4, 2021November 8, 2022

I've been quiet lately on my blog about my progress with the #DigitalDetox challenge. I have been working in the background, but I'm also starting to see a lot of the irony come to the foreground with all of this.

Most of these #DigitalDetox challenges have really been about self-reflection, deciding how I want my new normal in the post-covid world to look like. I don't think we're past the worst that covid has to throw at us, but I've noticed that since covid, our world has become more and more reliant on the internet… And I want to become less reliant on it.

I've been looking to the future, looking to see what challenges in my #DigitalDetox coloring book I can actually do, given my current situation. And I've been scheming as a result. I'm even starting up a book club. (The invite to the book club is in this post.)

So, here's what I've been up to.

Sorry, peeps, but this is a REALLY long post, but it is what it is.

The Mental Drain of Big Projects

Posted on October 23, 2021November 8, 2022

When I started this #DigitalDetox thing, I knew that I would learn a few things about myself that I never knew. Or maybe I did know them, but just didn't recognize them for what they were. But I this week's discovery explained so many things about the past that I had never put together before.

After completing a big project, I'm mentally and physically zonked—zapped of energy—and the fiction writing becomes a struggle. In fact, anything creative, including coloring-in pictures, becomes a struggle.

So, it probably won't be a surprise to anyone to discover that this week is yet another #DigitalDetox redo.

#DigitalDetox Challenges 7 and 8: I didn’t know about that app…

Posted on October 2, 2021November 8, 2022

For the past week, I've been working on two different #DigitalDetox challenges: write a poem and try a new food.

While writing a poem was a challenge, trying a new food was not. I seem to try new foods almost on a weekly basis, anyway. Yes, I have my favorites, and yes, I can be a creature of habit, but we're talking about food here. I love exploring new flavors.

So, while the "try a new food" challenge was in a way instinct and already built into my psyche, I did have to work at writing a poem. And while doing so, I discovered an app that I didn't know that existed on my phone.