My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

remove something else along with them.

I understood it. I had a sweater of Jacob’s that I slept with in the bed. Understanding it did not make me any more certain what to do when, nine months after the fire, the soles finally gave out.

Not gradually, the way shoes usually wear. All at once, the way things in our life had been going, the right sole peeling continue reading …