No Phone November
On mobile devices—and living without them
I am writing this on Day 7 of ‘No Phone November,’ but you may be reading it on Day 13 or 14. A casual internet search (on my computer, not on my phone) shows that I did not invent the phrase, but at the same time, I had never heard of anyone trying to go an entire month without their phone. It’s an idea that hatched spontaneously while laying in a hammock with my girlfriend on a sunny day: what if we just ditched our phones?
Day 1:
Went for a walk at dawn, made a yummy breakfast, and listened to a bit of news on an AM/FM radio plugged into the electrical socket on my kitchen counter. (I have had this AM/FM radio since the 2000s when I first began living in apartments as a twentysomething college grad. In those days, I had a flip phone, no personal comput…
