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“My husband’s not doing the unplugged thing; he doesn’t feel he needs to,” she says. “So there are nights that I’m unplugged and he’s checking his e-mail and surfing on his laptop, and I’m like, ‘Grrrrr.’”

Friday night I was on ABC’s World News with Charlie Gibson, talking about 52 Nights Unplugged in the context of a segment about multi-tasking and time management.
TV is a weird beast, and one I’ve learned a lot about in the last year. For the curious, here’s what this particular experience was like.

Woowoo! Who’s still on the Unplugged Express? It’s been a while since I wrote about an unplugged night because honestly, they’ve started just feeling like a nice, integrated routine.
I still struggle. I’m doing Unplugged Nights on Tuesdays, which is the night of my mind-bending dance class. That means that I stay busy for over […]

“A lot of times you have nothing to show for hours spent online but a hunch back and a sore butt.”

Dance classes can mess with my head.

I skipped writing about #7 last week because it was pretty much a few words: flew on a plane, finished Eclipse, came home, unpacked, went to bed. Booooring!
Unplugged night #8 was also pretty mellow…

The ‘Secular Sabbath,’ a Day of Unwiring

Yesterday I worked from home in the afternoon, so I had my first experience of having to be disciplined about when it was time to turn the computer off. Typically, I just tell myself that when I get off the wifi-enabled bus, that’s it. I step off the bus and into my unplugged existence. But […]

Ariel e la lotta alla videodipendenza “Stare sconnessi 52 notti all’anno”

My unplugging project showed up in the New York Times this morning, quite to my surprise: I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really.
THIS movement to unplug appears to be gaining traction everywhere, from the blogosphere, where wired types like Ariel Meadow Stallings (http://electrolicious.com/unplugged) brag about turning off the screen one day a week (and how […]