“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.” ― John Steinbeck The value of reading in my life is incommensurable. When I was in grade school, I remember a teacher whose idea of a reading test was to have us come to her desk, one after the other, and read out loud a passage from a primer. Imagine that. Reading as stress test. Terrible. That’s how I remember that I could do it fairly naturally. (I wonder … Continue reading THE MOST DIFFICULT AND REVOLUTIONARY THING