Today’s guest post is by Allen Mireles.

We went home to Vermont for the holidays this year.

The morning after Christmas, some of the family sat around in my brother’s living room, chatting idly and sipping coffee.

I looked at my mom, sitting across from me on the couch next to my brother, absorbed in reading something on her iPad.

My mother, a youthful 76, has only just retired and lives quietly and happily in the mountains.

She has never been particularly enthralled with electronics or social media.

I was amused to see her using her iPad with such ease.

Then she mentioned her interest in joining Twitter. (more…)