Are You Listening?

“I really don’t like talking on the phone,” I admitted to a new friend who was -curiously enough- talking to me ON THE PHONE.  “It’s such an intimate way of communicating,” I further explained, saying that I preferred using the phone, not for the purposes of elongated conversations, but as a means to an end. … Continue reading Are You Listening?

Demanding Decorum

I hate noise. Extraneous human noise. And have been known to silence people who make too much of it. Upon reflection of the practice I decided to ask friends if they thought I was too demanding. I then thought better of it and decided to reserve their comments for the really big issues like – … Continue reading Demanding Decorum