Stop the clock!

August? Already? I can't believe how fast time flies now that I'm older. I remember as a kid feeling like summer went on forever, the wait between Thanksgiving and Christmas was endless, and it felt like decades between birthdays. Now, I blink and half my summer is gone! Poof!

In the summer I like to read and read and read. I try authors I've never heard of, re-read some of my favorites, and haunt the "New Books" section of the library like a bar fly at last call. During the school year I hav...