Learning to Spell At Fifty

Note from Nick: This is a guest post submission from Richard Stephens, who shares a personal and moving story about learning to write amongst massive setbacks. It’s a little different than the how-to stuff we usually post, but it was too good to pass up.Â

Read it,Âhear it, and enjoy it. This story (a true one, at that!) is one with a fantastic message. Thanks, Richard!

Enter Richard:Â

My first grade classmates and I stood in alphabetical order, facing a room of empty desks. Mr. Burrows, a thin f...