I’m a person who checks out books about public libraries from the public
library.
The book was called, unsurprisingly, The Public Library. It’s a photographic
essay by Robert Dawson about libraries throughout the United States. The range
of photos is striking—from mobile libraries started in Hurricane Katrina’…
Cooperstown, New York was where I first fell in love with museums.
Obsessed with baseball growing up, I convinced my sports-adverse dad to take us
to the Baseball Hall of Fame [http://baseballhall.org/], which is located in a
small, quaint town in upstate New York. Seeing so much history…
Everyone has a show, that one show you love completely. Quotes from it find
their way into your bio and punctuate your conversations and advice. When the
question of favorite television show comes up around people who know you well,
they get up to get a drink before you'…
I’ve always loved questions. I suppose it began with friendly debates about
everything from baseball players to guitarists. In college, I learned that
curiosity about people and a desire to not be the center of attention could both
be achieved by asking questions. When my son was young, we…