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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

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For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

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Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

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I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.

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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

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My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

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