Journal is a word that has multiple meanings. Since I’ve always been an avid reader I love reading all kinds of books, magazines and newspapers. It’s always a treat to find a new one, especially if it has crossword puzzles in it. Where I live, about once a week in the mail I find a copy of the local free journal. In bigger cities they don’t mail these out, you have to go pick one up yourself if you want one. I can pick up this same free online blog myself from the library here too but I find it very convenient that they mail it to me. And, it has a great crossword puzzle in it! So I have two resources that I can access from the privacy of my home without having to drive anywhere, to get a free crossword puzzle.
The other resource is the Seattle Sunday paper. Our Aunt orders this one and pays for it, so that if she and Granny are ever up here for a weekend, Granny will have something to do. Granny can’t get around too much anymore, but when she was healthy and young she was a CPA and a business person. The paper is very important to her. If you give her a local paper, she can stay busy with it for hours. It works the same if you give her some of her own paperwork such as bills. Those can be dangerous though, because sometimes she thinks she should sign up for things that she should not sign up for, plus she can’t write very legibly these days. So if she tries to write letters they end up having to be redone by someone.
So in that way, a newspaper is a better source of entertainment for her, because then she just reads the articles and clips coupons and doesn’t try to change her bank accounts or sign up for “free” offers. Myself, I like to buy crossword books at the grocery store when I can afford them. One of these will keep me going for a month or so, but it is also a big treat for me to receive the Sunday paper every week whether Granny is here to enjoy it or not. It has two big free crossword puzzles in it, and I always look forward to them.
