Daphne Gordon

How to Break Up with Your Phone will help you reset your brain

By guest reviewer Nicole Baute

Smartphones are destroying our ability to think, relax and notice things — but there’s a book for that

I’ve never thought of myself as addiction-prone. But since the advent of email, social media and smartphones, I’ve become as hooked to technological devices as anyone, and I hate how it makes me feel.

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Daphne Gordon

Worry-Free Money provides hope for families

The new book by renegade financial advisor Shannon Lee Simmons creates a useful shared vocabulary for talking about money. It shares relatable stories about how families can get on track

Shared vocabulary is a super-important concept in families, and sometthing I think about when I select books. If our family doesn’t have a shared language in which words have a stated and mutually agreed-upon meaning, then meaningful conversation is simply not possible.

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