Mom: Was Doug E. in yur class?
Me: yes
Mom: He shipped out for Guard training in the Mojave Desert then will come back to await order to Iraq
Mom: His mom and he took on a paper route and there wa a photo in the paper today of her holding hispicture with a story about how the Sunday paper on their route was late but nobody minded. the family went to see him off.

So says my mother, the source of all news updates. I used to think it odd that her dad would call and tell her so and so died, or blah blah happened, but now I find it.. really nice. Like a newspaper that only tells me those things that I'd actually find interesting. And then clips the article and sends them to me.