Normally when I write this column, I’m seated at my desk with a cup of coffee, my earbuds, and some soothing background noises. My husband will often take the baby for an hour, and I’ll enjoy getting ...

I remember becoming acutely aware of students’ multi-tasking abilities in 2005. I watched my daughter, who was a senior in high school, do her homework while also enjoying four other inputs—music from ...

We’re all time-poor, so multi-tasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails while watching TV, make shopping lists in meetings and listen to podcasts when doing the dishes. We ...

So, here I am, multi-tasking under the nearby gaze of the cellphone tower that sits across the road from the cemetery. Earlier I was singing loudly to the baby and attempting to keep him awake as we ...