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Good Morning!
Today is the last day of 9th grade for my 14 year old son. Summer has officially begun! In a few hours, I will pick him up and we'll carry on a tradition that I began 16 years ago when my older son was in kindergarten. We will go to a bookstore and he will select a book that he wants to read just for the pleasure of reading. (The rest of the summer it will be library books for him!) After that, we’ll go for ice cream – carbs be damned. I have such fond memories of books I’ve read during the summer, maybe because I equate them with the vacation we were on while I was reading them. One of my favorite “summer reads” was The Color of Water by James McBride. With my older son, who was 8 at the time, we stayed up the better part of the night reading our respective books while my husband and younger son slept. We were in a hotel in Williamsburg, Va and getting up the next day to go to Busch Gardens was pure hell! Yet, my son often mentions it as one of his fondest memories...it is one of mine as well.
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures
| Save Our Schools March - Summer 2011
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SOS People's Platform Convention 2012 - August 3rd thru 5th - Washington DC
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