Over the past few days, Alex and I have been working to resolve a broken cell phone catastrophe. Luckily, when I got him his updated phone last year for his birthday I also bought the insurance (which I don't usually do), but knowing this particular user and his device track record, let's just say I didn't hesitate. So while troubleshooting, and insurance claim filing, and writing each other through facebook instead of texting, we've been pretty disconnected. Mercury retrograde ends tomorrow and hopefully the new phone will arrive, and all will be right in the world again. But it hasn't completely been about the phone. We've been treading an ebb in our relationship too. It happens. Once in a blue moon. Where the little things niggle their way in and become bigger things, feed the distance, if we let them grow unchecked. And before we know it, we are sort of avoiding each other and the hard conversation that needs to happen in order to get over the