"… has enabled women to blog about their unplugged domestic lives, sell their old-fashioned handmade wares online and receive validation for tasks that previously went unsung. “This lifestyle wouldn’t work if women were raising their perfect, happy locavore children in the middle of the woods with no Internet connection"
"But what may be most interesting here is when this neurotransmitter is released: not only when the music rises to a peak emotional moment, but also several seconds before, during what we might call the anticipation phase."
"The reams of red ribbon like those attaching the seals are said to be the root of the term “red tape.” In spite of the ribbon and seals, the request was denied."