When my daughter was first learning to read and write, she would leave crayon drawings with brief notes to me on the desk in my office

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Millions of other parents have similar stories about their own little poets using language in compelling and creative ways. (“Out of the mouths of babes …” as the old saying goes.)

https://truthsandwonders.com/2025/02/10/what-my-daughters-drawing-taught-me-about-words

I can’t begin to count the number of people who have told me they want to be writers, but don’t know how

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Reading is fun and I think it’s part of writing. It’s educational, and inspirational. It lets you connect with other people and places who never existed, possibly never could never exist. But that’s what writing is about, isn’t it? I know there are other ways to connect. You can Zoom, Facetime, and Skype. You can connect via email, telephones, even actual written letters though that has become a rarity, even for those of us who otherwise can’t stop writing. As long as there are computers, printers, and books, life goes on.

https://teepee12.com/2020/07/21/read-or-write-how-about-righting