I come from a long line of inventors
Or at least a few tinkerers, I think
My lineage is dappled with long hours
spent scheming in the shed,
dreaming in the garage,
convening ideas into the next greatest thing
All tagged poem
The Bibliophile
My grandmother was named Better — just Betty — not Bethany, not Elisabeth
The wife of a methodist minister, she was a public school teacher
Instructing pupils with exceptional needs in a time when nothing much was expected of imbeciles
She had high standard for reading, for writing and showing proper manners
Her classroom library, hundreds of volumes, was passed on to me when she retired