Thomas Umstattd Jr.

7 Challenges to Middle Distance Relationships

Grace and I live about an hour away from each other. Grace works in Austin an hour from her home and mine forming a giant one hour triangle of doom. I call this triangle of driving "a middle distance relationship." We are to far to see each other daily and to close for week long visits. This causes unique challenges. Whenever I want to spend an hour with Grace I must commit two hours to...

Generation Y & The Demon Phone

Warning: gross generational generalizations. Please post your exceptions and disagreements in the comments section. The Baby Boomers and Generation X both loved the telephone. As teens they spent hours chatting away but their children do not. The relationship between young people and the phone has fundamentally shifted. For generation x the phone was a source of freedom connecting them with their...