Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My sister Kathy and I walked around Milwaukee Monday evening like a couple of A-list celebrities, high-fiving strangers, waving magnanimously to excited fans and accepting the shouted compliments of a passing, well-bearded Harley driver. My sister, a badass librarian, earned all this adulation honestly. I just wore the T-shirt. But we both reveled in the [...]
Four times between third grade and sixth, the authorities at my niece Erin’s school hauled her and her parents to the principal’s office due to her subversive behavior. Her offense? Excessive reading. The same school district that tried to tamp down on her love of literature by restricting her access to the books she loved [...]