Simplify, Simplify.

Jane & Ann Esseltyn make a Tom Ryan recipe (what fun!)

My apologies for being less present these past weeks, but I ran into one of those moody, unyielding Old Testament gods…well, kind of. 

My Mac laptop served me well for nearly a decade, but lately, it’s been an ogre. When you love writing, it’s a joy when your pen scribbles across the page or fingers dance unfettered upon the keyboard as if in love. Alas, even the best computers age and become sluggish. What used to be a joy becomes tedium. 

Lately, I felt like the mythologist Joseph Campbell, who wrote, “Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.” 

Campbell was talking about the computers of old and not old computers. Still, my laptop showed no mercy this year, leaving me to type many posts on my iPhone. And let me tell you, there is none of that Fred Astaire - Ginger Rodgers grace when tapping away on an iPhone with fat thumbs.

I finally updated with the just-released MacBook Air with M2 chip. I don’t know the tech differences between my old laptop and this new Ma…