Warms an author's heart: some recent foreign paperback editions of Half the Sky!

At @FreedomCenter, met Marian Spencer, 92, first black city leader in Cincinnati, granddaughter of slave (more)

With @MariaShriver and Sheryl @WuDunn at soft launch of Half the Sky game in LA. Games rock!

After the waterfall, many folks sit down for a local culinary specialty: hot dog, Guizhou style

Happy New Year from Sheryl @WuDunn & me at Asia's biggest waterfall, in China's Guizhou Province

In Beijing visiting the Chinese Communist Party's No. 1 headache, artist Ai Weiwei @AiWW

That's me interviewing displaced kids in Syria. Some said they now want to kill all Alawites.

Syrian kids endure no end of horrors, but they still try to have fun (photo)

Welcome to Syria! Pardon the bombing.

Guess who Big Bird voted for today? http://jimromenesko.com/2012/11/06/meet-the-columnist-who-voted-as-big-bird/rbz-kelso-big-bird-voting-01/

Heart-rending @NYTimes photo of residents of Long Beach, NY, fending off looters

Does a train pass work on a boat? AP photo of a boat resting on train tracks near Ossining, NY

Great Reuters photo showing why those of us in New York state will soon need submarines

Hooray! A peek at this coming Sunday's NY Times Book Review best-seller list:

Two giants:Shaq with Edna Adan,Somali midwife & hero of "Half the Sky" on PBS starting tonight

That's my daughter on the Pacific Crest Trail as it winds over Goat Rocks

Back from 150-mile backpack w/ my daughter on PCT in Washington State. Here's some scenery

Back from 150-mile backpacking trip on PCT in Wash state. A pic of mt goats in Goat Rocks:

But at its best, the Pacific Crest Trail is just glorious. If you haven't backpacked, try it!

Sometimes there was way too much snow, and we lost our way.