Leonard Felson writes about the extraordinariness of everyday life. His stories have appeared in Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report, Connecticut Magazine and elsewhere. His career began as a newspaper reporter in California, where he grew up and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to the East Coast and became a staff writer for The Hartford Courant, America’s oldest continuously published newspaper. He writes primarily about cities, the Jewish world, and dramatic moments of transformation.