A refrain heard often in schools every day. No cuts in the line! No frontsies, no backsies, and no saving places. All school children are well aware of the rules but it sometimes seems as though grown-ups have forgotten. Whether it is intentional bad behavior or just because we are becoming so self-absorbed that we…
How far would you go to save a library full of books? ”It was like a battle when the books got burned. I imagined that those books, those history and culture and philosophy books, were crying, ‘Why, why, why?’ ” -Alia Muhammed Baker One of the many tragedies of war is the destruction of irreplaceable…
I haven’t done one of these quick Return to Civility tips in awhile. Today’s tip to make the world a better place – Take a walk! I’d like to expand that to include interacting with people you meet along the way. On one of my recent dog walks around the neighborhood we waved at the cyclist…
Luis Soriano is a modern-day, one-man version of the Packhorse Librarians. He is a teacher in Columbia and twice a week he loads his two burros with books, grabs his biblioburro sign, and rides for 8 hours round-trip to bring books to rural children near la Gloria, Columbia. Watch as Luis tells his story An…
Today is Earth Day which seems like a good time to talk about one of the rules I try to live by. Robert Baden-Powell said, Leave this world a little better than you found it. I learned this tenet as a young Girl Scout and have carried it with me all my life. I say…
“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” -Naya Rivera
There are many things about the world today that, in my opinion, are not great. Big problems and smaller problems. Some things will take a lot of people working for a long time to see change. What am I doing in the meantime? What small, daily actions can I take to work towards a more…