Take off!

It’s Wednesday, right? And it feels like Friday? So take off! Take a Hump Day Hiatus! As long as you’re about to leave 2015 behind too, here’s a question: Have you been reading the 16 for ’16 series in recent issues of the Medical Examiner? (Visit issuu.com/medicalexaminer) The articles (which still have a few more installments to go) offer ideas …

PSA of the Week

Don’t – please don’t – be any of these people. Look at the big beautiful world around you, not a phone screen.

A PSA for the ages

Smartphone PSA from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. Yes, boys and girls, smartphones are wonderful. They’re stupendous. They’re amazing. They’re revolutionary. And they’re just plain old useful. But the time to be on them is not while driving, while walking through the mall, while dining with friends, while standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or among the sequoias, or …

I Love Monday

I have nothing against cell phones. I have one, the latest model with all the bells and whistles. It’s cool. It’s indispensable. I will drive back home if I forget it. It’s horrifying to consider the mere possibility of not being tethered to a phone at every waking moment. HOWEVER. I love land lines. I won’t be disconnecting my home …

Why is it a distraction???

APRIL IS DISTRACTED DRIVING AWARENESS MONTH Why is talking on a cell phone distracting, but talking to in-car passengers or listening to music while driving isn’t? Odd, isn’t it? It is a statistical fact that drivers talking on cell phones make more driving errors than drivers talking to passengers. Among the most common cell phone errors: drivers drifting out of …

I Hate Monday

We stand at the brink of the mayhem of Shopping Season. Speaking as a person who’s married to someone who works in retail, I can tell you the average retail worker would like EVERY shopper to read EVERY word that follows. not that it will probably do any good. If you can’t read them all, perhaps #2 and #14 are …

It’s a PSA!!!

You may print and frame this piece and hang it in your entryway for every visitor and guest to see. Now that would indeed be a public service.

PSA of the Week

Warning: POWERFUL STUFF FOLLOWS Have you seen this PSA? It’s one of a potent series about texting and driving sponsored by AT&T called It Can Wait. If you’re thinking texting and driving is illegal in Georgia, you’re right. But so is speeding, and that fact hasn’t exactly eliminated speeding, has it? The message about the dangers of texting and driving …

Unlike this

My wife and I were dining in a fine restaurant in Atlanta Saturday night. The atmosphere was great, the food was delicious, the service was impeccable. The place – called Pappadeaux – was packed with happy groups of people; this is a fun place, no question about it. But my wife called my attention to something I thought was bizarre …