I fell in love with stories because my mother read books like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland to me at an early age and let me borrow any books I wanted from our local library. I realized many years later than the re-reading of certain books like The Three Musketeers was teaching my how to write my own stories. Not surprisingly, among the first of 90-odd personal essay publications I've had since the height of the pandemic, quite a few are about my mother.
I fell in love with stories because my mother read books like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland to me at an early age and let me borrow any books I wanted from our local library. I realized many years later than the re-reading of certain books like The Three Musketeers was teaching my how to write my own stories. Not surprisingly, among the first of 90-odd personal essay publications I've had since the height of the pandemic, quite a few are about my mother.
Love this photo! I remember Tom’s Midnight Garden and obviously the Tortoise’s picnic.