STEPPING IN: In this series of occasional stories, New Era staffers walk a mile in other people's shoes.

As I enter the Humane League on Lincoln......

STEPPING IN: In this series of occasional stories, New Era staffers walk a mile in other people's shoes.


In the narrow room inside Clipper Magazine Stad......

STEPPING IN: In this series of occasional stories, New Era staffers walk a mile in other people's shoes.

I, in my hard hat and out-of-the-package-new neon green safety vest, approach flagman Andy Qusuplos for the passing of the flag. "You......

I arrive at the Water Street Rescue Mission at — yaaaawn — excuse me, at 4:45 a.m. to embark on my one-day career as a cook. Me, a newspaper reporter who can't make a whole lot other than spaghetti and rice — as long as it's Minute Rice. But how hard can it be to ......