Sarah Beth Terry delivers the Sunday-night Porch Paper, covering the 25th anniversary of 9/11, political violence, President Trump’s proposed $5,000 dividend, record diesel prices, conflict overseas, Northeast flooding and a historic college-football upset.

Closer to home, there’s country music news, a loose Kentucky cow, a parking-lot circus, barbecue, Goodwill treasures, watercolor paintings and another encounter with the bathroom scale. Then Sarah says goodbye to Mittens and reflects on the strange way grief and laughter continue living beneath the same roof.

Because you don’t finish grieving and then receive permission to laugh again. Sometimes that’s simply what living looks like.