My Irrational Hatred of Little Libraries Has Ended

And why we should sometimes ignore the stories we make up in our heads

I’m going to confess that sometimes I have hated Little Libraries.

Yes, the cute wooden boxes with free books on house lawns in towns and the more suburban parts of cities. Those Little Libraries.

I often wanted to throw a rock.

Why? Because those little boxes filled with cast-offs reminded me of a certain kind of adult we all meet: the Know-It-All, the on…