When I was in 6th grade, my mom borrowed from the library a worn VHS tape of the 1967 version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (among many others). I watched only about five minutes before I was a bit completely lost, but my mom helpfully explained …
In 1992, my family moved to a different part of town, and my sisters and I had to switch schools in the middle of the year. I was in fourth grade, and this change was highly traumatic on several levels. First, I lost my two best friends (Katie O and …
When I was in second grade, my teacher Miss Fisher gave me and each of my classmates a few sheets of storytelling paper. If you aren’t familiar, it’s a large sheet of paper with three sets of wide lines at the bottom—you know, the kind with the dotted line in …
