Column: This Empty Nester Loves Skype
Sometime between counting the days before she left for her freshman year of college and predicting she’d not return til Thanksgiving, my daughter apparently decided she just might miss me a little bit. Or maybe she feared my reaction to the empty nest after 28 years of full-time motherhood.
Jo Mathis using Skype, a video chat application.
In any case, Tori installed a webcam and Skype on my computer so that we can have regular video chats.
This wouldn’t have occurred to me. Though Skype has been around for seven years, my experience with it was mostly spotty audio conference calls that were more irritating than anything.
“Trust me,” Tori said as she clipped the webcam to my monitor. “You’ll love this.” [Full Story]