Writer: An Origin Story
The joy of watching another writer coming into her own
My daughter is a sixth-grader with an affinity for history—at least when she can imagine living in another person’s time and circumstance. Last year for social studies class, she learned about girlhood in the Mayan empire. Imagining what it would have been like to have an arranged marriage as a young girl, promised to a…
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