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…
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…
Hello and welcome! Just a quick note to share my vision for this blog. As mentioned on my welcome page, I’ve always been fascinated by those little behind-the-scenes glimpses and tidbits of trivia about the world – how things work, where common phrases come from, what it’s like to work in a certain profession, the…