So I'm thinking of canceling my subscriptions to magazines I have taken for years. I already canceled The Reader's Digest--don't like the new editor's sense of how that magazine should look and be and so on. We took that magazine for decades before these new marketing-minded changes. And Wayne read it. Always.
I've been a National Review subscriber for more than ten years, but I . . . you know, it's hard for me to think of canceling it. But two things: I don't read it all; I get pretty upset when I do. Upset, worried, sometimes frightened. No, I don't want to stick my head in the sand, but I sort of do.
We have been members of the National Geographic Society since 1972. I really love the magazines, but I just don't get them read. Wayne always did. It's pretty hard to keep paying for them when I don't read them. Pretty hard to stop them coming to my home, too.
So. What should I do?
I know. They're only magazines. But what should I do?
I don't think that canceling the National Review subscription is the same thing as sticking your head in the sand. Especially if reading it upsets or frightens you.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone read the National Geographic when they come over? Or does it sit there unopened month after month? I've been wanting a subscription to National Geographic because of its constant presence in the home when I was a kid.
To Michelangelo:
ReplyDeleteYes, people read it when they come over, like last night, like today. And that is just what I've been thinking about.
Christmas is coming, you know, Michelangelo.
Let 'em go. Just let them go.
ReplyDeleteIt'll save money, right? That's never a bad thing.