We live in what has been called the "Information Age." We have more information at our disposal than any generation before us. We are flooded with bits of information, or should I say "bytes"?

I think a much better description of our time would be the "Age of Distraction." Everybody and everything are out to get our attention. And one way to do that is to distract us from whatever we may have been doing or are trying to do.

A case in point, I particularly dislike the scroll at the bottom of television newscasts. I can barely concentrate on what the broadcaster is reporting, because the latest news is being run across the screen at the same time. I have an elderly friend in New Jersey who says she's tempted to send her doctor's bills for her high blood pressure to the television station b…