Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 31, 2023

She must be reading Snoopy’s work. (“Suddenly, a shot rang out! The maid screamed!”)

Readiing big print is better than being a “big” plugger!

My mother loved to read. In latter years she always purchase large print books.

At plugger age, raising your glasses is better than raising your glass.

You’re an English teacher plugger if much popular modern fiction seems suitable for submission to the Bulwer-Lytton Contest, but you’ve given up complaining about it.

Do not need glasses for reading . I need glasses for looking at items in the distance ;-)

I print my church reading introductions and lessons (Old and New Testament) in 18 or 20 pt font and 1-1/2 space the lines to make them easier to read.

Mono-vision LASIK, not cheap but worth every penny.

When our library has new best sellers and a waiting list I look for large print editions. Often there are 50 holds on regular, large print is on the shelf.

If a book is large print I can forget the reading glasses!!!!

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets…" Yes, this was a favorite of Charles Schultz, too.

I reached a point several years ago where fiction was no longer of interest to me. I read some books on history and a number of monthly/quarterly or bi-monthly magazines of interest to me – current events, history, and needlework primarily.

Husband, on the other hand, has gotten into reading fiction rather heavily. Since his cataract surgeries some years ago he has found reading on paper rather hard to do as it is hard for him to see the words, so he reads books online. Every Thursday night when we go to dinner (much less empty than our former Friday night dinner out and therefore safer during the continuing Covid situation) I get to hear a summary of what has happened since last week in the book he is reading – right now he is reading books by a noted author who writes about Lancaster, PA Amish families – and they are real melodramas.