Stories for You to Muse Over in 2023

I have been in love with story my entire life: a child reading Nancy Drew in the woods, then a teenager dreaming up plot lines for a new novel during a basketball game timeout. Later, as a college student sucked into The Hunger Games mania, and now as a mom picking up Edith Wharton in those quiet minutes before bed. Throughout the years, story has been a tethering line that connects my present self to all those older versions, reminding me that the little girl who sobbed through Where the Red Fern Grows is still alive and well.  Jack was two months old when my best friend Bek Robinson came to visit us and brought with her a stack of baby books. “Have you read to him yet?” she asked. Embarrassed, I didn’t know what to say. It hadn’t occurred to me to read to him yet! He seemed so … out of it. I mean, the kid was still learning the basic elements of head control. Nevertheless, Bek persisted. I can remember the spot on the couch where she first read him Big Red Barn and Jamberry.  After that, I started reading to him before naps and bedtimes, and […]

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