A World Without Newspapers
Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 12:14PM 
When all the newspapers have gone away life will still go on but some things will never be the same.
The living room floor on a lazy, Sunday morning will never again resemble the bottom of a bird cage with newspaper strewn from one end to the other.
Scrapbooks will become, at best, three-ring binders filled with articles downloaded onto stark-white copy paper and, at worst, a tiny icon labeled "Jordan's Championship Season" on a laptop.
Floors, tables and kitchen counters will be stained and sticky from paint and glue spilt during craft projects and children will no longer learn how to make a sailor's hat, a kite or a paper-mache monkey out of newspaper.
Christmas ornaments, heirloom china and crystal will rattle and clink when boxes are loaded onto a moving truck and shipped to a new house where there won't be stacks of newspaper waiting beside the fireplace to use as kindling on a cold, winter's night.
Perhaps newspapers were just groundwood pulp turned into paper on which the day's events were recorded but they were woven into people's lives in so many ways and soon all that will remain is an inky residue on our fingers.