Columns

We all remember when it happened. I was standing in my kitchen with a mixer in my hand, beating cake batter.

I was watching the normally light-hearted, after 8 a.m. broadcast of the “Today Show.” Katie Couric and Matt Lauer suddenly seemed disoriented, as everyone tried to figure out what was happening.

When they began rolling footage, I leaned toward my TV to watch what looked like a toy plane fly into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

As many people have said, “I just couldn’t process what was happening.”

In the past month, I have been to three concerts.

One was to see Paul McCartney at Great American Ballpark, the best concert I will probably ever see in my life.

Another was to see four men dressed up as the ‘Fab Four.’

The final one was to see a classic, the Glenn Miller Orchestra outdoors at Conner Prairie in Fishers, Ind.

You might be wondering why I would be talking about three concerts in one column.

Coupons have become big news again.  It seems every 20 years coupons are discovered again as if they had never existed.  Coupons have their own television show.  The big coupon story is how there is a national surge in stealing newspapers to get the paper gold.

This isn’t new to us and I have written about it before.  We lose about $1,000 every six months to the theft of newspapers from newsstands. 

We monitored this trend over the past several years that coupons were in our newspaper.

Recently, I spoke to my mother on the phone. Here’s how it went. (The names have been changed to protect the innocent.)

“How is Kim doing?” I asked.

“Well, Edith said that she has very few wrinkles,” she answered. “But, she weighs 190 POUNDS. She’s just let herself go.”

“Uh. Well, what I really meant was how is she recovering from her broken hip?”

“Oh, that—she can put the weight of one toe on the floor and has to use a walker,” she said.