“Back in the day . . . “I love that expression, but it also startles me a lot. Just this morning I passed a hotel guest looking up the definition of a word in a humongous printed dictionary. I am spending the weekend at a 240-year-old Inn in Stockbridge, MA. The Red Lion Inn has all of the modern conveniences yet is decorated like it’s “back in the day.”

I watched the stranger looking up that word in the hotel lobby for 15 minutes and almost had a meltdown. He obviously couldn’t find it. “Where is your smartphone?” I wanted to scream. “You could have typed that word into Google, even spelled it wrong, and could have had successful results in less than 10 seconds.”

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