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

learned over the past nine months that grief was not a single thing but a collection of things, some of them expected and some of them arriving in forms you could never have anticipated, and standing in that gymnasium watching three hundred children sitting silently with duct-taped shoes, I felt something I had not felt since before the fire, something continue reading …