This time of year we automatically say "Happy New Year" to friends, acquaintances, and even strangers, days after the champagne corks have popped and the fireworks are but a memory.
During the debate on Sunday, Mr. Lonegan suggested that Mr. Booker spent every waking hour on Twitter, where the mayor has 1.4 million followers and unabashedly exchanges messages with strangers day and night.
Take the time to brighten a stranger's day every day, whether it's a compliment, holding the door open for someone whose hands are full, or volunteering at a soup kitchen.
Ghada Issa, Ibrahim's sister, said that her brother rented an apartment to a stranger two days before the army arrived and that the stranger had said he was a night guard in Bethlehem.
Partially modeled on a story told to Kim by a stranger, 12 Days began during her sophomore year in college as a way of coping with the end of a relationship.
For three months, I knocked on the doors of strangers all day, every day.
Here's Roz with another idea for how to celebrate Stranger's Day: Hello, stranger.
TO photograph strangers these days takes nerve and imagination.
Well, Stranger's Day is finally here, and as promised, our Web editor, Blake Eskin, was in Times Square handing out Roz Chast's Stranger's Day cards.
In this week's New Yorker, Roz Chast tells us that August 24th is Stranger's Day.
You can also visit the Stranger's Day site, and tell others to do the same.
