Places Gone Places Remembered
I live in a small community that's constantly changing. Yes, some of the change can be filed under gentrification, but a good deal of it is subject to the changing social, economic, and technological shifts occurring in this early part of the 21st Century. Old businesses, like the outdated means of communication and means of purchasing goods and services are dropping by the wayside. Their replacements are not always progressive, but they are hard to ignore. Just the other day I saw an older woman write a check to pay for groceries. In an age when a phone app or the swipe of a plastic card is commonly used to buy a cup of coffee, this seemed like such an anomaly. I half expected the cashier to take the check and ask, What's this?' Maybe that's a little extreme, but rest assured, that day is coming. We do so many things interactively with our phones and computers. Our phones are our computers now, aren't they? At this point in my life, I've made some dec