I remember the first time I read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I was in eighth grade and going through a rough time. My best friend had just decided that she didn’t want to be my pal, let alone my best one. I… Continue Reading “Finding friends in books.”
My big brother was on the high school wrestling team for one year. Eleven year old me thought nothing of his involvement in the sport until I had to go to his first match. Back in those days my brother was stick-and-bones skinny. He… Continue Reading “Wrestling, Atticus Finch, and The Great Cloud of Witnesses”