I also can't remember not being able to read. When I was very small, somewhere around 3, my father used to read to us kids while sitting at the kitchen table. I always sat across from him, and one day I realized that I knew the next word he would speak. Unfortunately, I was reading upside down, something that I continued to do until the nuns beat my little knuckles when I started first grade (around age 4).

There are only two other activites in life that give me more pleasure. Writing is one of them. As to the other, the nuns also taught sex education! So you could say I subscribe to the three Rs, reading, writing, and rhythmic tricks. Well, perhaps you couldn't say it, but I could.


TEd