Sue Woolfe

This time of year is when all the leaves have turned brilliant colors and I want to take pictures of the scenery. My cell phone takes pictures, but I want really GOOD pictures. I want to learn how to use the professional quality cameras, with f-stops and other settings. Maybe Santa will bring me a good one?

My new cell phone is awesome. I can download apps to do all kinds of really cool things. I found some good ones from my brother’s Android phone and I want to ask each of my friends what are their top 10 favorite apps. So far, my favorite is the one that tells me the planets, stars and constellations when I point the camera up toward the night sky. I just love that one!

This morning I was thinking about how communications have been changing for people in my generation. Almost no one goes to the store and buys stationery or cards and puts them in the mail We use the internet to send things like that. It’s free, it’s easy, and there are lots of nice web sites that have cute animated cards that say everything you would want to say.

No one has a home phone any more. And unless your job is white collar that requires a phone at your desk for work, most of us don’t use the phone to talk to anyone except our closest friends.

Also, we don’t use email much anymore. . So much email is just spam anyways. I use Facebook and Twitter to keep up with my people, pus a short text from my phone. We talk a lot less but we still communicate.