I have always been a reader. In first grade I got caught hiding a novel behind my math book. (In retrospect, that moment was quite accurate foreshadowing of my academic future.) I was infamous in …
A Story Unfinished
Matt Mooney's powerful book A Story Unfinished: 99 Days with Eliot is the kind of book parents like me don't really want to read. It's blunt and honest and covers ground most of us don't even want to …
Raising Your Kids to Be Lifelong Readers
When I was a kid, I would rather read than do just about anything else. (The same is pretty much true for my adult self.) Many of my childhood memories involve books. I remember slumber parties …