Two years ago today, WORD was born.

When you break it down into weeks (104), it seems like a lot. Or maybe it doesn't. It's hard to say, really. I'm not going to attempt to add up the days because 365 X 2 is no walk in the park... wait... it's 730. I think. Whatever. Not important.

What is important is that you enjoy your time here. If you're just starting your school year and you have just received your first issue of READ magazine, how did we do? Did you read Bad Blood? It's a story about Jarrod, a kid who swindles an old lady out of a car. Well, it's about much more than that, but it's all in the context.

Or maybe you've just read through your first issue of Writing magazine? How was it? How did you like the article called Help! I Hate Writing! Did it help? We'd love to know.

Here on WORD, everyone is welcome. This blog is an extension of both READ and Writing magazines. Feel free to stop by any time and leave us a comment under any post. You can browse through the archives to the right and see what we've been up to the last 104 weeks. You can even email us your own writing! Send your poems, short stories, and essays to word@weeklyreader.com. We post a lot of student writing on this board and sometimes, we even publish your writing in our magazines!

So welcome back to school. Stop by our bloggy often. We update it several times a week with author news, interviews, book reviews, and much much more! Let us know if we can help you out in any and all things literary.

Oh yeah, and WORD also has a myspace page at www.myspace.com/wordblog. You, too, could be WORD's friend!

See you soon.

Word.