Why do I listen to the news?

[MouseWife]

I watch the news, I read the stories. It is sickening. It hurts my heart and it puts ugly images into my head, don't like them.

My niece always stops me from reading her things {I'll be talking with her on the phone while reading the news on the internet} and says she just can't hear it. I tell her, I don't enjoy it but I think I do need to know, it does happen.

Maybe it makes me paranoid and I hound my kids to keep their cell phones charged, to make sure eveyone has AAA, ask when they'll be home and to please call {I am not so much trying to know what they are doing just when to expect them home}. I've been ribbed about not going in to 'bad neighborhoods' but hello, I grew up in one and it is still on the news, a lot.

I think, while I don't read every single thing, that it is good to know that things happen. Helps keeps us aware and what to look out for so that as concerned people we can do something, if need be. That we learn when to help and when to run, ourselves.

Like all of the stories about people meeting people over the internet...oh, wait...