Last week, my six-year-old daughter asked me if she could get a new watch. This wasn’t a new question; her Poppy watch had broken a few months ago and every once in a while she brought up getting a new one. You see, when you’re a kid and have just learned a new skill, it’s something you want to practice all the time. When you finally recognize that the letters floating in front of your eyes resolve themselves into words, then sentences, then actual stories, it’s a magical exp

Last week, my six-year-old daughter asked me if she could get a new watch. This wasn’t a new question; her Poppy watch had broken a few months ago and every once in a while she brought up getting a new one. You see, when you’re a kid and have just learned a new skill, it’s something you want to practice all the time. When you finally recognize that the letters floating in front of your eyes resolve themselves into words, then sentences, then actual stories, it’s a magical exp