Breakthrough

Natalie can read. Some. Most importantly, she seems to want to and is actually trying. She picks up a lot of words.

It had been a long time since I had thought about how systematically perverse the English letter h is.

Consider these lilies:

• Hen
• The
• She
• Chew
• Through
• Tough
• Morph

It's almost as if h, in and of itself, spells trouble.

But not for Natalie.