While I was at a campaign event this weekend, a woman from New Jersey began talking to me. I was knitting in the round with circular needles. The woman, who said she has only knit scarves and a few baby sweaters, began asking me lots of questions about what I was doing. Then, she asked [...]
I begin each work day by compiling a set of clips. It’s a task that fell in my lap a few years ago and it’s probably my least favorite daily duty and the task I would most like to hand to someone else. (I love my job. I really do. So I’ll keep doing this [...]
Blog reader Kevin told me about this new initiative in Mexico City aimed at lowering crime on the city’s subways by distributing free books to subway passengers. The article doesn’t say exactly how giving a pickpocket a book will make her not pick someone’s pocket.
“We are convinced that when people read, people change,” said Metro [...]