A favorite game of mine is to count the number of newspapers lying in driveways as I walk the dogs at 6 am. I include all foreign language as well as the Murky News and the SF Chron. I used to see driveways with 2 or even 3 newspapers. Those were the ones who took the Wallstreet Journal and Barron's, too. No more.
We still subscribe. I justify it on two levels. First, my husband's best friend is still working at the MN and we have to stick together to get him to retirement. Second, it is a family building tool. We divide the sections up at the breakfast table and pass them back and forth with comments. With almost 18-year-olds it's an amazing feat to engage in conversation at all, let alone at breakfast. We have 3 laptops and a desktop for the 4 house dwellers but the laptops are not conducive to sharing the sports page and the comics as well as the local section. So we still have the newspaper divided into 4, sharing over the cereal bowls and coffee cups. Amazing.
Almost as amazing as having breakfast together.
We eat dinner together, too. But that's another column.
We still subscribe. I justify it on two levels. First, my husband's best friend is still working at the MN and we have to stick together to get him to retirement. Second, it is a family building tool. We divide the sections up at the breakfast table and pass them back and forth with comments. With almost 18-year-olds it's an amazing feat to engage in conversation at all, let alone at breakfast. We have 3 laptops and a desktop for the 4 house dwellers but the laptops are not conducive to sharing the sports page and the comics as well as the local section. So we still have the newspaper divided into 4, sharing over the cereal bowls and coffee cups. Amazing.
Almost as amazing as having breakfast together.
We eat dinner together, too. But that's another column.
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