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

before everything changed.

Andrew held the shoebox in his lap on the way home. He looked out the window. After a while he said, “Dad would have liked Danny.”

I said yes. He would have liked Danny very much.

Andrew nodded, and then he was quiet again, but it was his regular quiet, the comfortable quiet of a child who is simply thinking, not the heavy private continue reading …