Katharine Trauger
Nov 5 · 1 min read

Our experience with country Internet was exactly as yours. One difference: I, being the home-educating mom, was relegated to one day per week for my online activities, which was when my kiddos had their library visit. However, our library kept its Internet on at night, for those who wanted to park outside the building and borrow then. As a regular patron, I always knew the nighttime password, so there was that, plus for us, it was only a five-minute drive to get there.

The cost was, in my opinion, enormous, as everything seems to be these days. People regularly pay $1000 for a phone that will prove to be outdated before much time has passed, and more hundreds, monthly, to feed it. Add to that the absolute need, from a writer’s perspective, for a real keyboard, for fast and accurate word processing, which truly makes a real computer also a need.

I know there are work-arounds, but in the end, my motto was: I live on a hill in the Ouachita Mountains — a marketer’s nightmare and a writer’s dream-come-true.

Now that our kiddos have grown and gone, we have moved to a place near enough to a small city to have it fast and cheaper. But I remember those days and not too fondly. 😢

    Katharine Trauger

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