Writing my own opinion pieces.
So, at this point I have more than half of Sunday's paper to read and now have Monday to Wednesday also. I will probably have Thursday's tomorrow, and then nothing till Monday.
I am going to have plenty of crosswords to work on too. I am thinking of forcing myself to write down clues and answers to the words I miss so that maybe someday I can do the end of the week crossword and Sundays also. I got one clue on Friday's and none on Saturday's. I did about half of Thursday's. I think I can do most of Monday to Wednesday's puzzles, but I will let you know next week.
I have taken to scanning the paper first and reading a few stories. Then I go back to the first page and basically read the entire paper. I skip a few stories in sports and business, but even there I at least scan the start of every article. I like to read the letters and op-ed pages in their entirety.
I have marked several stories to go back to and hopefully I will start writing my own opinion pieces. Two issues that have had multiple stories this week are Social Security and pension stories and Medicaid.
The Social Security stories include the President's take on Social Security and Arnold in California wanting to redo the state employees' pension plan. The Medicaid stories from NY and Jeb Bush in FL, so that gives me plenty of background to write some hopefully well-informed and insightful essays.
Time will tell if I can be disciplined enough to do it. I figure I need to do planning, rough draft, and first rewrite, which should be double-spaced and neat enough for you to send to a typist if it gets that far. If not, then when I get a typewriter you could send them back to me for a final draft.