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

“He’d probably say something dorky about how the old ones held up pretty good.”

I laughed. It came out before I could shape it into anything, just a real laugh, the kind that arrives without warning.

“He absolutely would,” I said.

Andrew made a small sound that was somewhere between a laugh and a sigh and then he was quiet, and a few minutes later his continue reading …