my kids are growing up dominican in the future they might grow up argentinian or croatian or chilean and with us as their anchor id like to believe theyre growing up new jerseyan too and i hope that one day their purple flowered daisy infused minds will see that the world is one big place full of many different childhoods none better than the one they lived somewhere between two time zones why my kids will live a very different childhood mayor kurt schmoke meant well when he dubbed baltimore the city that reads in the 1980s though the muchmaligned motto was quickly changed the citys literary heart beats as strongly as ever heres why you should visit baltimore if you like books