Mister Rogers touched millions of lives. Pittsburgh native, Alicia Kachmar -- the woman behind the awesome, thoughtful "yarn bomb" of Mister Rogers' North Shore statue -- is one. The artist (an freelance writer, Etsy shop owner, Today Show craft maker, craft book author, and college tour copywriter who confesses that she drinks a lot of coffee and doesn't sleep a lot) counts her primary ...

It was ten-years-ago this morning that NPR broke the news of Mister Rogers' death. I was crestfallen, having only recently met the man himself. I was a young, MTV producer at the time, and spent the bulk of my day writing a remembrance, then emailing to every publication I could imagine. Of course most, like The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, were dedicating entire sections to the icon. In the ...

As Americans wrestled with the unthinkable murder of some twenty first graders last week, Mister Rogers' sage wisdom returned to provide a deep and simple salve. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news," he said in a highly viral image "My mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of ...