I’d played Chinese checkers, colored, and solved the word jumble in The Daily News. “Nana?” I was spending the weekend at my grandmother’s house in the Bronx. “I’m bored.” She looked at me. Then, she walked to the round table in her living room and opened the drawer. She pulled out a royal blue spiral […]
I’m sure a lot of people remember the exact moment they discovered their love of words. Me, I can’t recall a moment before I had. Imagining a world where I’m not surrounded, inundated, and overwhelmed with (and by) words every day is a horrific post-apocalyptic nightmare—a life measured in Kraft Singles and boxed wine. In […]
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