Observations

It’s easy to watch a butterfly float on a breeze and notice how delicate their wings are, but you really see it when their wings are scattered on the ground. The colors

Rather than focus on a handful of people, as is common in this type of book, Alex Kotlowitz puts an emotional face on the statistics of urban violence by telling many stories of

The pickup cab was illuminated by the glow of the smartphone screen. Loud voices and hand-waving filled the space. Suddenly the window opened and the phone came tumbling out end over end. It

There was a rabbit outside my office window. It was eating grass, but it was also watching me as I was watching it. Because it was still, and I was close enough to

Zhush (je-oosh): to fancy something up Re-swizzle: to reorganize or reorder something