April 23, 2003

Phones

I was talking on the phone with my wife today and I realized how different it is to talk to someone over the phone when that is the only way that you are communicating: little changes in tone turn into arguments, little arguments turn into big arguments; you are only as happy as your last phone call was pleasant. The thing that really bothers me is that all the little things that happen to me each day – my stories – can get lost because she isn’t there to hear them in person when I get home; my retelling of them after the fact is a watered down replacement just as our phone conversations are of what we really want to communicate to each other.

But this reminds me that this move was the right thing to do since it puts us near family and friends that we normally just call.

April 23, 2003 10:26 PM