I have a small, ornate, gold woman’s pocket watch in my jewelry case.  The watch’s case is delicately engraved and its round white face has black script numerals under a glass watch crystal. It was my paternal grandmother’s “dress” watch.
In her day, men and women alike carried a watch on a fob in their pocket.  The watch had a  stem type mechanism that needed to be hand wound daily to keep the watch running. The hands of the watch were also set by using the winding stem.
Turning the watch over in my hands reminds me that I had an analog childhood; but now I live in a digital world. Most of us look at our cell phone to check the time. I can’t imagine handing down my cell phone as a family keepsake.  Still, if you had a Apple MacIntosh M0001 1st MAC 128K stashed away, it could fetch you $1800 or more on eBay. Better hold on to that one.
I’m not a Luddite. I’m not opposed to new technology or new ways of working. I just miss “analog” memories like getting hand-written letters in the mail, Saturday morning cartoons like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, holding and reading printed newspapers and periodicals, and any form of art created by a real person.
Call me old-fashioned, but I now can claim these super-powers from my analog earlier years:
1.Telling time on an analog clock.
2. Making change without a calculator.
3. Reading and writing in cursive.
4. Finding a recipe in a cookbook, not on a device
What are your super powers?.