By Michele D. Kegley, PhD

I had the opportunity to attend the Writing In Depth Retreat July 24-27, co-sponsored by TAA and hosted at Hope Springs Institute in Peebles, Ohio. As I was preparing to leave, I was talking to myself, “You packed your clothes, shoes, computer, writing journal, pens, phone, water bottle, what am I forgetting? Oh, my files are all in the cloud! I need to download my files onto my hard drive on my PC. I am going to a writing retreat, and they have warned us that there is limited internet access.”

I do not know about you, but I didn’t know how digitally dependent I was until my watch, mobile tablet, laptop, and phone couldn’t access the internet, and that limited access for four days was glorious.