In celebration of bookstores

Why books - and the places we buy them - matter.

I’m writing this from the register of the independent bookstore my husband and I helped start earlier this year.

While we aren’t involved in the day-to-day operations of the bookstore itself - that’s my sister’s and her husband’s baby now - the four of us co-own the building, which we have plans to develop into a larger community hub with books at its c…