FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – “Get to know your grandmothers, they
have a lot of wisdom,” Maureen Page (69, Middletown), a grandmother herself,
advises from a charming new book of insights and advice titled WISDOM FROM THE
BLUEBELLES (LFA Books; $15.95; April 2013). Just in time for Mother’s Day and
graduation, NJ-based writers Lizbeth Finn-Arnold and Sandra Longo’s book provides
grandmotherly wisdom courtesy of fifteen women from the Middletown/Red Bank
section of Monmouth County who originally met in the Red Bank YMCA, and were
featured in the award-winning 2008 documentary, The BlueBelles.
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Texting and Walking Zombies
In NJ, they are proposing a bill to make texting and walking illegal.
I think fining the "walk-and-texters" is a great idea because they drive me nuts, and it is actually dangerous. I cannot comprehend why people can't live without their phones for even one second. I see kids getting off buses, staring like zombies at their phones, unaware of the world around them. Cars whizzing by? They don't even register it. They literally can't wait two minutes to get inside their homes before they answer a text?
Also I hate shopping in stores, because people on their phones continuously walk into me (and then look at me like I'm an alien). I see people walking around in cities completely clueless to the world beyond their phones. Whatever happened to being street smart and aware of your environment? And why does every message need to be returned instantaneously?
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