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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and one of the ways I try and honor his legacy is to try something new and push myself to leave my comfort zone. Given the divisive nature of our national politics I am hoping to use the holiday to have a conversation with someone that I might not normally engage with. The national organization Story Corps has started a similar initiative that they are calling “One Small Step.”

Story Corps has spent the last 15 years preserving and sharing humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people. This is how they describe the project on thei...