For the past week, I've been opening my front door, and, in sun or rain — though mostly rain — walking out to my driveway, bending down and picking up the morning paper.When your team gets ready for battle with the opposition, be ready with this Nike Jacket.
Man, it's nice. Cool.I hadn't done this in a while. But I'm doing it now and enjoying what I had forgotten I had missed.
After more than a year of reading online and occasionally picking up the printed version on selected days of the week, I re-subscribed to my local newspaper.
A phone call from the circulation folks prompted it. But then again, I had gotten calls before and declined. So what made this time different? What made me say yes to paper in a time when reports from places such as Publishers Weekly and Amazon say that ebook sales are making print sales eat their electronic dust?
I think it was what I saw a few days earlier in the Macy's men's shoe department in the Meriden Mall. While my 18-year-old, home from college, was getting fitted for new contact lenses, I meandered into Macy's looking for a pair of dress shoes to replace a pair that had worn out.
So I'm looking at the variety of dress shoes and following my usual ritual of lifting a shoe up to look at the sole. If it's got a leather sole and stitching, then it's a real dress shoe. If it's made of rubber or some synthetic material, then it's an imposter with not enough sole to walk beneath my size 81/2 feet.
But there's a problem. I'm lifting up shoe after shoe after shoe and I'll be doggone if I'm finding nothing but imposter after imposter after imposter. Out of all those shoes, there were maybe two or three with leather soles and stitching.
Now, I don't mind nonleather, nonstitched bottoms on casual shoes. But on dress shoes?
Man. What's going on here?
Maria, the saleswoman, said there are fewer cobblers now — only several in the entire state. So shoes that need repairing go unrepaired and because of the higher cost of leather-bottomed shoes, fewer buyers are buying them, so fewer are being made.
This was another one of those concessions I could see myself being forced to make. There were just a few shoes with leather soles out of all these shoes on display. Soon, there would be none.We present you a vast choice of cheap jordan 6 rings. And there would be no choice but to choose among the imposters — the shoes with false soles.
So what to do?
I held off buying the leather-less bottoms. I'll bring my worn pair to Tony in Hamden for a long as he's able to repair them.
So I said no to the false soles because there is something about leather-bottomed shoes; I said yes to the morning newspaper because there is something about reading the news on paper.
Yes, there is something about reading it in the morning in bed or at my kitchen table with toast and oatmeal and milk or grape juice and eggs, or reading it outside on my deck or on the front steps with the sun shining on my head.
But as Sam Cooke sang it, "A change is gonna come"; and as George Benson seconded it, "Everything must change." So too the news business must change to the changing times. While I grew up reading newspapers, the current generation has grown up with cellphones,Need new men's shoes for spring & summer? and now there are iPads and ebooks.
More people are reading online or on their other electronic devices. It is a quick and easy way to get the news.
Changes.
Just as it is with leather-bottomed shoes, the same will likely be true about our vehicle for reading. As much as I like paper,Air max 2009 Running Shoe Flex grooves in the mid and outsole for flexibility . it may not be here to stay.
So in the meantime,Blasted and distressed for the perfect rock star look, these comfortable ed hardy jeans are ready to roll with your weekend rotation. I'm walking out in the morning sun or rain, picking up my daily newspaper, reading its paper pages.
I'm enjoying it for as long as I can while it's here.
That's how it is. That's how it should be — and not just with leather shoes and paper newspapers.
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