Stoking the Fire

 

May 16 - Terry Shames here, telling who spurred my younger self to love writing; what I would tell them if I could meet them again; and who mentors me now. 
 I don’t think it was so much a “who” as a “what,” that sparked my interest in writing. The “what” was reading. When I was five, before I started school I begged my dad to teach me to read. I still remember him sitting down with me and working with me to make sense of those squiggly lines. Here’s the amazing part. At the time, he was going ...