Spelling Bee

Warming up before their classmates came in to watch. Evelyn came home a few weeks ago with the news that she'd been selected to participate in a school spelling bee. She made it abundantly clear she did not want to participate. After all, the thought of competition, especially competition in front of people (gasp!) is not her idea of fun. At her age, I would have done the same thing, so naturally, I encouraged her to reconsider. And by reconsider, I mean I practically forced he...