One of my duties when I worked in the Philadelphia Library was to maintain the clipping file. Every day I read a handful of local papers and clipped articles that might be useful to our patrons or staff. These papers only had a local circulation and were too small to be indexed in any of the major published indexes. This was back in the 70's before we had a computer on every desk and cubby. Retrieving a newspaper or periodical article meant locating the microfiche or microcard and using the appropriate readers. Newspapers in their original form were too fragile for long term storage unless in an archival setting - controlled temperature and humidity, light, dust and pollution free etc. In other words it was a royal P.I.A. - Any clipping that we deemed important was photocopied onto permanent paper - paper that was acid free, lignin free, and tear resistant. The link below has a lot of information of preserving newspapers and at the bottom of the article it has a link to creating archival scrapbooks too. Here is a link that might be useful: clippings

IMHO the story is so poor (his quote doesn't even make sense - why print that?) that it's hard to draw any conclusions. He could have chosen to walk away - but why admit that? Maybe he's trying to create the impression that it was a choice because it makes him seem more financially sophisticated (in his mind).

I have made this one with 1 half lights and the other half darks . It is called "Sunshine And Shadows"

Linda...the flowers are sold by scrapbooking companies...I know my daughter sells them...I don't know why you couldn't use a reg. one...if you pulled out the center. Unless the hole is too big...they attach them with brads. They have all different colors of brads. I found a book at a thrift store (it's orginal price was about 35 dollars..) It is full of page ideas. I'm sure you can get something like that or find page ideas online. Peggy at the Message House forum is doing some beautiful fall pages she has been post pictures of. here is a link to one of them...there is another one on page three. called more scrapbook pages. Here is a link that might be useful: scrapbook page