It needs to get really bad here before there will be any kind of lasting change.

Agreed. Of course everything isn’t available on audio. I was speaking to people giving others a hard time for not “reading,” that audio books don’t count.

The bigger issue is that people feel the need to qualify what “reading” is. Who cares how people are exposed to books. Does it really matter?

My HS English teacher read this poem and it always stayed with me. Nearly 45 years later and I still feel the raw emotion.

There are 34 libraries in our local system - all within 70 miles. I’m going to all of them!

Making a lot of murder mittens.