Education

My mother's favorite baby photo is me sitting in my high chair reading a book. I was a freakin' baby, for dog's sake. I had the book upside down, but hell yes, I was going to read.

You gotta' wonder where that kind of stuff comes from.

When I went to kindergarten and first grade, the books were about 20 pages long and thus very thin. My mother told me I wouldn't be seen carrying them to school. I had to carry a real book, one at least an inch thick.

Do you remember taking aptitude tests? We took numerous tests and what puzzled me is they wouldn't tell us how we scored. So I got a book about lock picking and picked the lock of the guidance counselor's office so I could get into my file. To this day I can still remember reading my scores out of that file.