That virtual yet tactile touch

It must have been a phone company. AT&T? That had the tag line, "Reach out and touch someone". It was a Great line if only because I still have it lodged somewhere deep in that part of the cortex that believes and believes deeply in such nonsense. Reach Out. Touch.

Because I'm so easily touched.

You move away and you move away. Just for the sake of moving away. Sometimes. Just the other day at the WORK I less than love, I counted up at least three - count 'em - 3, jobs that most people would never leave. Yet.

And so you stay up too late and in between virtual poker hands you get a virtual touch on the shoulder, on the heart, asking why Roth and not Updike. Good question. Thanks for asking.