On the Mudroom Today

I'm excited to be featured on the Mudroom today! I'm sharing about how books have shaped me - and the folklore behind my few faint freckles...

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“You see these spots?” my dad would ask, pointing at my nose. “They aren’t freckles. They’re print that’s rubbed off from having your nose stuck in a book.”

He wasn’t far from the truth. I read voraciously as a child. I took a book along with me everywhere—just in case. Just in case I got bored, just in case I wanted to slip away and retreat back into its pages...

Head over to the Mudroom to read "The Books that Help Us Story Well."