Originally published – MARCH 28, 2005 A book I’ve recently started reading discusses the role of the sidewalk in relationship to neighborhood crime, or further to the point : the way that good neighborhoods patrol themselves in a way that city planning and police action cannot. When I stopped writing…

Originally published – OCTOBER 08, 2005 “What do you want to do?” “I don’t know.” “Do you want to see a movie?” “OK.” “Which movie would you like to see: there are four playing now.” “I don’t know.” “Would you just prefer to go home?” “OK.” A scene not unlike…