At my father’s retirement dinner, my parents seated my husband

our thank-you letters for years.”

He looked at me then. Just me.

“Because every one of those checks has a note attached. The note says the gift is made in honor of teachers like Diana Cobb. I’ve never told her that. She thinks I run the place. I do. But she’s the reason I built it.”

The Sound A Room Makes

I want to describe the silence but it wasn’t silence.continue reading …