Shrinking World

As a child in Waco, Fiorella would read the newspaper from beginning to end, sport pages, business news, and all. But then, the Waco Times-Herald was not that thick, and Fio was at the stage when she'd read anything she could get her hands on.

Later, when newspapers became humongous, Fio would pick and choose what she read. Still later, she not only picked and chose, but got tidbits off the internet news reports.

But now, she's not that interested in news anymore. It's the same as it's always been--war, destruction, man's inhumanity to man, with an occasional blip of sunshine tossed in. Been there, done that. So Fio reads the comics, glances at the headlines, then, as Voltaire advised, tends her own garden.