The frosty January wind came whirling through the doorway as a group of elderly gentlemen stepped outside for a morning cigarette. A few feet away, I stood hovering over top a coffee table rifling through a messy pile of newspapers—USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal.
I kept sorting through the scattered papers, eyes darting from headline to headline. Still nothing. I’d gone, give or take, the better part of two years having not read a single newspaper headline. Yet, here I was, standing hunched over a heap of words, desperately in search of one headline in particular.