Long distance families and keeping in touch Long distance families and keeping in touch Families living in this transitory and very mobile age know they have to make special efforts to keep in touch.
Kids go away to college, join the service, marry and move.
Cousins and siblings who were close find themselves spread out from Maine to California and Mexico to Minnesota. But the dynamic that flourishes in a group of folks, especially of mixed generations is hard to achieve by mail, phone and cyber space though not impossible. Granted, conference telephone calls can be arranged, linking several family members all over the map, often at great expense. I know a group of siblings who needed to discuss a parent s long-term care. With each of them at a great distance from the others, a conference call was set up and had to fill the bill.