Les Jacobson: Birds of a feather

Les Jacobson: Birds of a feather

My father, a frequent and harsh critic of my native dumbness as a kid, would take to calling me “bird brain,” or sometimes in a grand flourish, “chicken brain, turkey brain, feather brain.” The aspersions hurt, mostly because I knew they were true. My mind darted around like a hummingbird or a butterfly. Nowadays I’d […] Les Jacobson: Birds of a feather is from Evanston RoundTable, Evanston's most trusted source for unbiased, in-depth journalism.