Out of Town Newspapers

People send me things, sometimes out-of-town newspapers (real estate sections). Most are pretty informative and pleasingly devoid of the latest on Frankie Muniz's remodel, or gossip from the Malibu colony.

This paper features an article on real estate counselling for couples. He wants a farm house, she wants a chic highrise, whatever will they do?

My sister-in-law sends me the Milwaukee Herald-Tribune, obsessed with green building and spiraling assessments. One such article interviewed a woman who had the misfortune of new neighbors from California. (Presumably the fiscally irresponsible Californians were to blame for her adjusted taxes.)

I used to look forward to reading the sports pages when I traveled, now it's either the local section or the real estate supplement, and little else. Sometimes this myopia causes me to lose touch.
"Did you hear the big news about Scooter Libby," I'm asked.
"No", I might respond searchingly, "but the Canal Fulton feed mill collapsed...outside Akron....Ohio."