I fell in love with reading in the fourth grade. Mr. Sobel let me read one of the Hardy Boys books, that later were made really famous by Walt Disney, and I was hooked. He cared enough to bring them to me from his home library. That’s just the kind of teacher he was, and I will be forever grateful, even if he couldn’t spell Antarctica (that was my first experience in learning that teachers are human, too.) So, I lived with getting it wrong on my spelling test even though I knew it was right. I didn’t challenge him, because I didn’t want to embarrass him…and he might not bring me anymore Hardy Boys books to read! So why is this important? Well, I suspect I may not have become a reader, or a writer for that matter, if he hadn’t been in my life and made that extra effort for me. There are all sorts of turning points in our lives that if we think back we can find them and marvel at the difference they made. I’m pretty sure Mr. Sobel was my turning point that eventually developed into a degree in English and a desire for creative writing. I often wonder if all the reading I did to and with Wendy from the time she was small had an effect on her becoming an English and Creative Writing teacher and eventually writing books with me.
What goes around, comes around. What you do matters.
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