I'd been travelling quite a bit and doing a horrible job of balacing my priorities. Actually, I was doing a decent job of balancing all of them but my family. I was fitting them in in tiny little chunks whenever it was convienent. Even when I was talking to them, I was only half way there, checking e-mail, with the TV on - Continuous Partial Attention. When I got back, I found that Cathie and I were horribly disconnected. We had a talk that was pretty painful (for me) to realize what I'd been doing. Last week when I travelled, I decided to put Cathie and the kids first - chunking off a big block of time where I turned off the TV, my laptop and just spent time with Cathie and the kids, on the phone. What a difference in our connection when I got back.