{"id":2858,"date":"2015-07-23T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2015-07-23T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:53:58","slug":"family-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/family-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"unnamed\"<\/a>Tongue-in-cheek\u00a0text from younger son: “Ugh: I have to read some ‘Being Norbertine’ article by one ‘Allen, S.’ for my first graduate course.” Which is how we in the office\u00a0discovered that the cover story<\/a> of our Summer 2014 issue is now required reading on a college\u00a0syllabus. A syllabus for our own brand-new MBA program here at St. Norbert, in fact.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s one more piece of mine that will have been read by one of my own children, for a grand total of\u00a0…\u00a0two.<\/p>\n

The first\u00a0was a piece that\u00a0I more or less bribed my\u00a0first-born to sit down and read. I’d made the tiny public library of my childhood home the subject of my\u00a0editor’s letter in our Fall 2009 issue<\/a>. The children always loved visiting and exploring the village where I’d grown up, and I’d shown them where the library used to be and told them about the fearsome librarian who presided there. So I thought my daughter would enjoy seeing some of this material in\u00a0print.<\/p>\n

She settled down grudgingly on the sofa and I put the mag in her hands, open at the page in question. She read. She leaned forward. Her face brightened. (An engaged reader!)\u00a0She looked\u00a0up at me, a question forming on her lips: “This is\u00a0beautiful. What font is<\/em> this?”<\/p>\n

By the way, I have always wondered what the families of those slice-of-life columnists think about the whole deal. And how they get away with it. It only now occurs to me that I could have been writing away like Erma Bombeck all these years, making a mint out of columns full of the comical misdeeds\u00a0of spouse and\u00a0kids. They’d never know – they’d never read them, because they\u00a0would just be some thing Mum wrote.<\/p>\n

I am a prophet without honor in my own family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tongue-in-cheek\u00a0text from younger son: “Ugh: I have to read some ‘Being Norbertine’ article by one ‘Allen, S.’ for my first graduate course.” Which is how we in the office\u00a0discovered that the cover story of our Summer 2014 issue is now…<\/p>\n

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