Straight from my heart

As a starry-eyed 16-year old, I had been in love with the written word for years. School-recommended text books, novels, newspapers, magazines -whether dog-eared, rat-eared or goat-eared name it, I pored over them as if my life depended on them. Yeah, my future actually depended on them My family members worried that I was hurting my eyes becaus ...