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twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.01.21

The Toronto school system has a reading system where the kids follow graded levels, A, B, C, etc. Ken started "Senior Kindergarten" at a "C" in September and has already clawed his way up to an F2. He's reading moderately interesting things now, and sounds things aloud at about half the speed I do. I wouldn't dare commenting on his Harper-like I mean robot-like reading voice but I suppose it won't be long before he's reading this journal.

Dang, no more comparing him to unpopular Prime Ministers!

rand()m quote

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous

—Robert Benchly