Friday Freebie: Dad's Magazines

I often use this space to share things I'm writing about or talking about in class -- things of a more serious nature. But, today, as I was thinking about what I'm actually reading (the usual focus of this feature) -- besides stuff for class and the books I listen to on Audible -- one thing popped into my mind.

People magazine.

Every weekend, my daughter goes shopping for my dad and brings him the things on his list. He, in return, gives her a bag to bring home to me. Copies of the many magazines he subscribes to are always inside, and People magazine is regularly among the stack. I don't keep pace with my dad, but I do usually chip away at the magazines in the stack, and People always makes the cut.

I've reached the age where I don't recognize a lot of the celebrities captured by paparazzi and featured in the first few pages but, as I flip through the pages, I always find a story worth reading. Since it was easier to scroll on People.com than try to dredge up the online version of a print magazine story, today's feature is one that caught my eye on People's website, in which Rob Reiner (whom I follow on Twitter) and Mel Brooks talk about Rob's late dad, Carl Reiner (whom I also followed on Twitter). I remember the son from All in the Family and as the director of my favorite movie, When Harry Met Sally, (in which his mother uttered the famous line, "I'll have what she's having") and I remember the father from The Dick Van Dyke Show, all of which are far older than most of the people captured by paparazzi and featured in the first few pages of People. 

Though I won't be including People magazine as required reading in my classes, it works quite well as reading, required or otherwise, in my down time.

Thanks, Dad.