I wish dead-tree newspapers were still worthwhile. It would be fun to recapture the appeal — and the serendipity —of that daily and especially Sunday package.
Yeah, I know they still exist but they’re nowhere near as good nor as necessary as they were for most of my life. At least my fingers are no longer ink-stained.
I was thinking the same thing this morning. My local Sunday paper has the LA Times crossword going for it, hidden among the bloated sections of Christmas adverts. Whenever I pick up one of the big city Sunday edition, I’m usually disappointed at the absence of substance. There’s always a good book to discover or re-discover…