When the kids were small, we used to walk everywhere; I live in a town with a good bus system, and you don’t really need a car. We were poor (or financially embarrassed as I prefer to phrase it) and we didn’t need the extra expense.
I turned walking into a game; in the morning [...]
To say that I love to read is to understate the case. It has been – at various times in my life – an obsession, an escape, and an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
When I first started to read, I wanted to know, and I wanted to know it right now. I sucked in information [...]
I’m looking around at my computer desk right now, and there are no less than 6 books stacked here. On the bar behind me there are 3. The coffee table has 7. The couch has one that I can see, but I know very well that my daughter stashed a copy of Shel Silverstein’s Where [...]