: About Me

Reading the World Reading must've come easily for me because I don't remember struggling to do it. Yet I do remember in first grade using word flashcards that were attached to metal rings like keys on a key chain. In my mother's photo album is a picture of four-year-old me, pretending I could write by scribbling on scrap paper my father would bring home from the high school where he taught social studies. Luckily for me, my mother saved my favorite childhood picture book, Josephine van Dolzen Pease's This Is the World, about children who live in different countries. What I remembered most ...