When I first started telling people I was going to move in with my housemate Brian, the comment I frequently got was that I should “try it out”. I knew each time I heard this statement that this is at the same time a spirit of appropriate caution and the spirit of worldly compatibility. My response to this suggestion was always “No, I need to go into this with the attitude that this is a forever change in the way I live, or I will not be committed. If I know I have an out, I

I was speaking to my sister-in-law on the phone a few weeks ago. She told me how my father had started calling more regularly, and when he did, he would call to speak to her, my niece, or my nephew instead of just calling to talk to my brother. She said how much this meant to them. It made me a little sad, but I pushed that feeling aside because I knew it was because I don’t do the same. I do not doubt that if I were to say to my niece or nephew, "I would’ve called more often