Goodbye Heart(s) - with a nod to Ricky Nelson

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4. I absolutely love the instant access to information that the internet...

…makes possible. I look up all manner of topics every day.

What I wouldn’t have given for the internet and a word processor back in the early 1980s when I was in grad school getting my nursing master’s. When I think of the hours and hours I spent in the medical library - first going thru The Reader’s Guide To Periodical Literature and the card catalog, then roaming the stacks to pull journals and books, then discarding those that sounded like they would address my topic but didn’t really, then either taking handwritten notes or feeding dimes into the copy machine.

And how much easier a word processor would have been than a typewriter for someone like me who never took a typing class and was a hunt and peck typist, or had to pay someone to type papers for me. Many a time, I would get all the way to the bottom of a page that I had slowly and painfully typed, only to hit a wrong key and have to do it all over again.