Dahleen Glanton: A lesson from my vacation: Chaos still happens, even when you're completely unplugged.

I almost completely unplugged for seven days. I understand, of course, that putting it that way is an immediate giveaway that I failed.

The important thing, though, is that I tried. And in doing so, I learned a powerful lesson.

Tucked away at a retreat in the Arizona mountains, where daily meditation, yoga stretch classes and workshops on how to bounce back from stress were the daily norm, it seemingly would have been easy to escape from the real world.

I didn't turn off my phone, but I ignored it as much as possible. I answered only one phone call from