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

He looked the same and he also looked different in the way that a year changes people when the year has contained something significant, a certain quality of having processed something enormous and being still in the processing.

He took the microphone Thompson handed him and looked at Andrew.

“Andrew,” he said, “your dad was one of ours. He showed up continue reading …