Bookery Founder/Dreamer

I didn’t have many books growing up, and I wasn’t really read to as a kid. For a long time, I didn’t think much about that- But I found books anyway!

At a friend’s house, there was one I kept going back to—The Way Things Work. I’d sit there well into the wee hours of sleepovers—flipping through the pages, completely mesmerized by how things worked, how it all connected. That book was the start of my curiosity—probably the beginning of how I think about the world.

Two of the art pieces in the kids’ room at The Bookery come from that book. Every time I see them, and every time I look out at a store full of books—and people of all kinds gathered together—I’m right back there. Just pulled in. Curious. Wanting to understand a little more.

And honestly, that’s the whole point of The Bookery for me—creating a place where that can happen for anyone who walks through our door.

My hope is that through the store, and the programs we support, we create more readers, more thinkers, and more people who feel connected to each other and the world around them.