When did you realize you were on a sinking ship? Looking back, I think it was around 2002. I was a news page designer at The Times of Northwest Indiana and the paper’s higher-ups announced that the folks who came by each week to water and care for the plants would not be coming back. [...]

I’ve been a little obsessed with the delivery of information lately, in part because of letters, postcards and telegrams my great-grandmother and grandmother saved. The oldest is from 1910; the most recent from the ’70s. In one, a mid-’30s letter, the writer complains that a new delivery system by the U.S. Postal Service means letters [...]