Reading Is Not Optional.

Yeah, That's Funny, Huh?...something Hurts You Real Bad And You Get Used To It. Like Being Hurt Becomes Part Of Who You Are.

Books Transmit Values. They Explore Our Common Humanity. What Is The Message When Some Children Are Not Represented In Those Books?

What I Do With My Books Is To Create Windows To My World That All May Peer Into. I Share The Images, The Feelings And Thoughts, And, I Hope, The Delight.

If Anyone Could Look Into My Head See Or Feel The Dread That Has Captured Me Or See Within This Sad, Unhappy Brain They Would Only Turn Away Turn Away.

My Dad Was A Janitor For U.s. Radium Corporation, And He Stayed There For 37 Years. So He Didn't Read.