The practice of phones off for an hour each day

Or, what to do when you and your spouse don't agree on phone boundaries.

At the beginning of the year, I spent some time planning out newsletter topics for the months to come. I had dozens of ideas — enough to fill more than nine months of weekly conversations! I slotted them into the calendar and we’ve been checking them off together for the last few months.

There was one topic, though, that I was dreading. And here it is.

Well, dread is probably too strong of a word. Let me explain…