19th Century Connie

Welcome to 19th Century Connie, where everything is infused with the irony of using a blog to talk about how life rocked 100 years ago.  Let me say up front that I am perfectly aware that many aspects of life did NOT rock back then - don't even get me started about corsets - but in some ways, we have a lot to learn about living from the turn of the century.  I can't help yearning for the time when families gathered around the fireplace instead of the television - or perhaps I should say, instead of not gathering their individual mobile devices, and possibly in different rooms in the house.  In the spirit of full disclosure (and who doesn't fully disclose in their blog?) I am rather fond of my iPhone.  But I'm striving not to gaze into its smooth, hypnotic surface so much that I forget to play chess with my son every once in a while (when I can drag him away from his Nintendo DS).