Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True Storiesmall, at the beauty shop, anywhere I am. I hand outcards with the numbers for the local Laubach centersin and around Kansas City. I want everybody toknow that if they have trouble reading or writing, orknow someone who does, that there is help available.They have nothing to be ashamed of. The peoplewho need to hang their heads in shame are theadults who had control over their lives as children.”As she looks back on her remarkable journey,Daisy gives special credit to two people: her husbandDon, and Peggy Otten, the former readingprogramcoordinator at Honeywell.“Don has been my biggest fan and supporter,”Daisy says fondly. “This is Don in a nutshell: OnceI was working and working with a math problem,and I was tired out and just could not get it for thelife of me. I finally picked up that book and threw itacross the room and said ‘That’s it! I’m too stupid;I can’t do this.’ And Don just quietly picked up thebook and said, ‘C’mon, honey, let’s go for a drive.’52