I didn’t go to kindergarten. The year I should have gone – 1979 – was the last year kindergarten wasn’t a legal requirement in Vermont, and circumstances being what they were, it made more sense for my parents to keep me home until first grade. When the time came, I started school with a plethora …
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Stand in the Place Where You Write
Last weekend my family went into downtown St. Albans, VT, to support Small Business Saturday. We couldn’t care less about the madness of Black Friday, and we’ll take pretty much any excuse to support local businesses. In addition to shopping at great places like The Eloquent Page, As the Crow Flies, and Moonshadows, we discovered …
THANKSREADING 2018: Gateway to Poetry
I work full time as a behavior interventionist, so I’m around kids of all ages at least 40 hours a week. More than that if you count my own brood. One of the great things about my work is that I’m exposed to books that might otherwise have gone unnoticed or ignored. One of those …