Evy Journey's Blog, page 3

Our Surreal Lives in a Virtual World: Apropos my latest novel

Pandemic life is strange. We’re forced to live even more in a virtual world.

I watch as my niece’s two little girls argue over who gets to use the iPad first. Their mother has ruled that each only gets thirty minutes to watch or do what they want on it. And only after they’ve done their pandemic, home-supervised “schoolwork.” She doesn’t want them to spend hours staring at screens. During the minutes they have control of it, they lose track of time and become oblivious (deaf and blind) to what’...