Make It With Michael

By Jeff Bullas She told me to turn off the light. It was 8pm and it was time to sleep according to the adult’s house rules. These were non-negotiable. My desire and passion for reading that I had discovered after mastering “ the cat sat on the mat ” sentence at the age of five, made this a cruel and arbitrary time. And a seven year old’s passionate response… …” But I want to keep reading “. Despite protestations and mumblings, the light switch was flicked to the off position. First battle lost. The adults (sometimes referred to as my parents) had all the fun. But they didn’t count on my patience that was driven by an inherited trait of passionate persistence. As the house went silent I grabbed my bedside lamp and positioned it under the bedcovers so that an orbiting spy satellite would have trouble knowing what I was doing. Parents score zero and child chalks up a win. This was the start of a reading habit that has sometimes bordered on obsessive. Glimpses of genius Inspiratio...

http://ift.tt/2wkioN8 By Jeff Bullas She told me to turn off the light. It was 8pm and it was time to sleep according to the adult’s house rules. These were non-negotiable. My desire and passion for reading that I had discovered after mastering “ the cat sat on the mat ” sentence at the age of five, made this a cruel and arbitrary time. And a seven year old’s passionate response… …” But I want to keep reading “. Despite protestations and mumblings, the light switch was flicked to the off position. First battle lost. The adults (sometimes referred to as my parents) had all the fun. But they didn’t count on my patience that was driven by an inherited trait of passionate persistence. As the house went silent I grabbed my bedside lamp and positioned it under the bedcovers so that an orbiting spy satellite would have trouble knowing what I was doing. Parents score zero and child chalks up a win. This was the start of a reading habit that has sometimes bordered on obsessive. Glimpses...