I have the most amazing husband in the world! He spent his father’s day with me handing out books to kids who were visiting their dads in jail. Volunteers have been more difficult to come by in the summer and understandably so on father’s day so it was a family affair today with my...
Children are not given equal access to books and the cost to all of us is great. Check out this great piece in the NY Times. It validates and makes me more fired up for our new Road to Reading program that gives kids visiting a relative in the Dallas County jail a book...
This past Sunday I joined Dallas Can Do Better in their Road to Reading program at Dallas County central jail. One Sunday per month, DCDB heads to Lew Sterrett with boxes of books in tow to pass out to children waiting in line to visit their incarcerated relative. In addition to passing out books...
I was traveling over spring break so missed our first day but what I heard from Sally whose idea this all was to begin with the day went well. We gave away over 200 books to children (one per child) who were visiting an incarcerated relative at Lew Sterrett one day last weekend. We...