On a whim, she decided right then to start teaching me to read, and in short order unleashed the hack writer before you now. Continue reading »
Apr 082015
According to my mother, I’ve been an avid reader since age two. Apparently, I had memorized from an old TV soda commercial that P-E-P-S-I spelled the name of a tingly, tangy drink that I could only have in occasional sips. The way she tells it, she almost wrecked her car when I saw a billboard and shouted, “Look mama! P-E-P-S-I! That spells Pepsi!”