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I was hooked on phonics even before I caught a glance of the other end of the Berlin Wall.

When my father read to me, I pointed at this combination of letters and that and asked what sound it made, in the hope that I might eliminate the middle-man and read at my own monomaniacal toddler pace.

When my mother took me with her to the store, I would stand ramrod straight, puffed up with the gravitas of three-year-old with something important to say, and would recite to all and sundry the poems that I, armed with my new knowledge of 'rz's and 'ci's, had learned.

I devoted myself to words and their placement in sequence well before I knew that I'd done so, and though there have been times when this love has waned and times when it has waxed, it ha...more


1) Euro 2012 is sadly over, leaving me in that terrible several-week gap before more football invades and leaves my wife gibbering with the realization that there is always more football.



2) You may have surmised, from that coy insertion of the word ‘wife’, that I am now married! It’s true! I’m like some sort of adult.


3) An interview with me recently went up on the Akamai Reader, so check it out...

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