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Letters to the editor for the March 29, 2021 weekly magazine. Readers discuss artisan furniture and personal experiences with plum pudding.

Dear Reader, About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outsid...

Copacetic colloquialisms Regarding “Flappers said ‘baloney!’ to idea that slang was for men” in the Dec. 14, 2020, Monitor Weekly: Oh, what fun memories Melissa Mohr’s column stirred up for me. I was born in the late 1920s, so I grew up hearing my folks and their friends use “flapper slang.” I figured it was just normal English.  I’m now living in a large retirement building and will occasionally use “the cat’s pajamas” or “the bee’s knees” or “the cat’s meow” – which always makes someone say with delight, “Oh, I haven’t heard that for years!”  In...

Speaking up for change Thank you for the article “To be Black, a woman, and a cop: A trifecta of American complexity” in the Nov. 16, 2020, Monitor Weekly. It affirms my view that we need Black women in leadership in every law enforcement department. In the article, police Lt. Melissa Morgan tells readers to raise their voices and be clear about what changes they expect in their communities. I expect policing reforms to be enacted into law. I think national standards are needed to prohibit discriminatory profiling, to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, and to require data collection an...

Loading the player... Monitor editors hear from a lot of writers who are eager to break into our pages. Many of them we just can’t accommodate. But when I opened my email this past June, a proposal from a potential columnist stopped me in my tracks. No one at the Monitor had ever heard of Ken Makin before he reached out to us. But as I read through his proposal, I was struck by the feeling that I was talking to a Monitor journalist – we just hadn’t met him yet. By now, of course, many of our subscribers know Ken’s work. He has become a frequent contributor since that...