write and share a "This I Believe" essay

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90368555

Very informative!

and it actually has to do with our (former) dry cleaner!

I have really backburnered this goal, but I suddenly realized that I usually write in response to something I’ve read, so I bought a collection of James Thurber’s writing, and a collection of E.B. White. White’s been one of my heroes forever, but his essay “Here is New York” knocks me flat in an entirely new way. What he had to say about NYC in 1948 is true, true, true nearly 60 years later. What a mind he had.

Read more essays. I love, love, love Penn Teller’s essay about not believing in god. And there’s another one about “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” that manages to be both funny and profound.

I think mine will probably deal with animals, and loss.

And have read two already…one I’d already heard on the radio (Loudon Wainwright) and one I hadn’t (Frank X. Walker). Great inspiration!