January 24: Turn the Page

Great Bob Seger song, but not the focus of this blog entry. My experience had more to do with the newspaper, than Michigan's own rock legend. Every Sunday morning, my wife and I venture into our sitting room across the way from the kids and their TV shows playing in the family room, relax into a cozy chair with a warm cup of coffee and read the newspaper. For as long as I've been engaged in the action of reading the paper, I have always, always selected the Sports page first before reading any other section. This is not just a routine for me, but more of a religion. This particular morning, for whatever reason, Earthly or beyond, I read the Front Page section of the paper first. And that's it. Simple, somewhat boring, but for one day my knowledge of the Motor City and surrounding areas stretched beyond the latest headlines for the Wings, Pistons, Tigers and Lions. I feel like a new man (kidding, next Sunday I'm actually going back to the Sports page first routine, as I really didn't get much out of today's process).