Jochebed

Onboard, disconnected from their real and virtual networks - most communications are off-limits at sea for security - they lack the usual coping mechanisms, said Jochebed Swilley, a civilian social worker on the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship.

But onboard, disconnected from their real and virtual networks, they lack the usual coping mechanisms, said Jochebed Swilley, a civilian social worker who collaborates with chaplains and medical staff aboard the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship.

Onboard, disconnected from their real and virtual networks — most communications are off-limits at sea for security — they lack the usual coping mechanisms, said Jochebed Swilley, a civilian social worker on the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship.

On the surface, this river bed scene is an update of that Old Testament story in which Jochebed, the mother of Moses, placed him in the Nile River to protect him from being killed.

Then Emmy Rossum — a Modern Love podcast veteran — reads “Swearing Off the Modern Man,” by Jochebed Smith, about finding “face-to-face,” “hold-it-in-your-hands” romance in the social media age.