I miss having a home phone. In many ways a cell phone is far more convenient. It is always with you so you are less likely to miss a call. In emergency situations it is wonderful. Pay phones were never where you needed them. Cell phones are not the perfect solution. For one thing they have to be charged regularly. Nothing is more frustrating than to have an important call cut off because you forgot to charge your phone. Then there is the embarrassment when your phone goes off at a movie or concert or even in church because you forgot to turn your phone off. Or how about no one being able to reach you because you forgot to turn your phone back on? For a while we thought you would only be called on your cell phone by someone to whom you had given your number. Robo calls changed all that. And then there are those places, especially in rural areas, where suddenly there is no services, home and cell, but now I wonder. Do you still remember your old pre-cell phone number? Do you remember other numbers or do you depend on your cell phone contact so you don’t have to remember? Over all modern technology seems a very good thing, but occasionally I feel a bit of nostalgia for “the good old days.”