Journalism in the 21st Century

Saturday Girl Why I will miss the six-day-a-week postal service Today's news that the U.S. Postal Service is cutting back to five-day delivery hit me kind of hard, even though it was not surprising. I have to support it. I knew they were in the red, after all. I just worry that this portends something a little bigger -- like no service. For all the kids out there who don't care about this, let me explain why this hurts: bigger than the transition from albums to CDs to iTunes, bigger than landlines to mobiles and real-life pals to Facebook friends, the postal service transition could be dark, really dark. Letters from my past My grandmother Mimi used to send me letters (see photo). When she passed, I had access to her thoughts, how she wanted me to find a nice Jewish boy , keep reading, keep doing well in school, and when I had a moment read her latest proverb.  Mimi took proverbs and with her calligraphy, turned them into art for the J ewish Heritage of Los A...