JANUARY The first month of 2022 is where it truly all began! While on personal leave from my teaching job, I was sprawled on the couch one evening feeling sorry for myself when I glanced at the tattoo on my arm: “more than words” in my dad’s handwriting. I got this tattoo after he died because he said the phrase often and it reminded me to savor those feelings that were more than words could describe. I realized with a jolt that this was the perfect name for that dreamy bookshop that had always been in the back of my...