Luann Againn by Greg Evans for May 22, 2019

Nancy has that right!!!

Look, Luann! Your mom is doing something else, “unbelievable” these days: She’s reading a newspaper!

Luann’s sure Nancy’s lying and trying to make it sound worse than it was…

And soon there won’t be any malls again.

Your mom is HARDCORE!!

Come on! We had malls back in ’65!

Is Luann a poet?

I read a newspaper online but I read my local newspaper from the town I grew up in delivered the old-fashioned way.

About books. . I prefer to hold a book in my hands. Turn actual pages. I know about Kindle but it is not for me. I buy books that I want to keep forever. The rest I go to the library.It’s a wonderful place. Sorry, I guess I am an old-fashioned kind of gal. I am 81 and you can’t change me now.

Unless you were way out in the country, there were definitely malls in the 60s. I spent plenty of time there when I was in high school.

Besides reading, my best friends and I would also walk to the beach, or to a friend’s house and then walk together to stores (not only in our towns but nearby towns), or sometimes walk to a town that had both a ferry and a bus or to another one with a train station and then go somewhere else. Typically, there was a LOT of walking on weekends and some walking outside of school hours, no matter where we were. (Yes, we had good figures as well as laying down better bones and having better general health thanks to that, and we are still reaping certain health benefits decades later.)

I generally read as well. Or developed and printed photos I’d taken in school during the week

It would be good if there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.