The news today that Reader’s Digest will file for Chapter 11 is sad news. Now, I know, the literary elite look at Reader’s Digest with disdain. It is not the New Yorker and many will question the policy of condensing other magazine’s articles into short – to the point articles.

For me, I will admit, I enjoy reading it. I don’t subscribe, but when we go to my mother-in-laws, I grab the back copies (that she often saves for me) and read away. I love the way they troll through the news of today, providing sound bites on everything from health to business, with the requisite human interest ‘miracle’ story thrown in there to inspire.

I hope it survives. It would be a sad thing if it didn’t. After all, who wouldn’t miss Word Power? (smile).