to my twin brother Bruce
& his friend Stefanie for sending this one along!
This tee-shirt reminds me of an anecdote told by the author Alice Hoffman about how she decided to be a writer. One day in Junior High, she got in trouble passing notes at school, so to punish her, the teacher intercepted the note and read aloud everything that she had written to her friend.
But instead of feeling embarrassed, Hoffman thought, "Wow, this is pretty cool to have all these people listening to what I just wrote!" After that, she said, there was no stopping her!
from her lecture at "Wordstock" 2016
Portland (Oregon) Book Festival
My brother says it reminds him
of an experience with his two daughters:
My older, Anna Mary, was misbehaving.
I don't recall what she did that provoked my ire,
but I sent her to her room.
My younger, Sara Beth, was standing there.
She looked at me rolled her eyes in disgust.
"What?" I asked.
To which Sara Beth replied,
"You know she likes that, right?"
Reader's Paradise ~ Aimee Stewart
