My mom called yesterday and asked if I was would be okay with them stopping their Journal Star print subscription. They’ve been taking paper 7 days a week for over two years, ever since I started as an intern. It arrives in the mail a few days late, and my Mom has dutifully clipped each photo of mine and placed them in a large collection of binders.

I did a similar thing personally, keeping stacks of yellowing pages in my closet. That stopped about 6 months after it started. I have no discipline, obviously.

Still, I was a little wistful knowing that they’d no longer have a physical and colorful reminder of myself arriving almost every day. There’s a comfort knowing that my parents care that much about me. But the subscription is quite expensive for out-of-staters and the binders are becoming unwieldy. I assured her it would be fine with me, as long as they keep up online…

photo by David Zentz