Read all all about it: Why my love of newspapers hasn’t waned

Newspapers have beguiled me from an early age. The summer I smuggled a kitten home from day camp, even though I knew my mother was terrified of cats, I placed the gold and white kitty in a shoe box lined with newspaper and covered her with my camp T-shirt.
With the kitten happily hidden in my bedroom closet, I liked thinking about her snuggled up in the news, surely a safe place.
At the time, we had two newspapers a day, the Virginian Pilot in the morning and the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch in the l