Slice: To Quit The Paper Or Not

Though she has not shown interest in it in recent months, I renewed my mother’s subscription to the newspaper. I guess it’s because I can’t get my mind around the idea of her being without a daily paper. She will be 98 this spring. Her generation read newspapers. It was second nature. Some of my earliest memories involve her sitting in our living room, looking at the morning paper. We also got an evening paper for years. But now she is kitten weak and frighteningly frail. She sleeps much of the day. Each afternoon, when I stop by the nursing home, I see her copy of the paper still pristine from lack of handling. We’ve had the talk. You know. Should I discontinue it?/ Paul Turner , The Slice. More here.