Advice from a small town girl

We live in a world of instant gratification these days.

I want out.

Wait! I don’t mean I don’t want instant gratification. I just want to take it away from everyone else. Or at least some of them.

A friend recently told me of receiving text messages from another person. If the sender didn’t get a response within five minutes, she just sent another text. And another.

When did we decide that the whole world must be at our beck and call?

When I was a kid (I don’t seem to be able to write any of these columns without citing my childhood. Guess that’s just a clear indication of my advanced age), we...