On Tuesday, I launched The Thought Farm. This morning, I reread my post. Something didn’t feel right. For more than 30 years, I’ve believed that stories help children connect with ideas—and that those connections can change lives. Yet my launch post wasn’t telling a story. It was explaining a philosophy.

Weeks before The Dream, I dropped out of college. It was the summer of 1976. I was a third-year art major at East Carolina University when I decided to move to New York and rent an apartment with my best friend from college in Roslyn on Long Island. My Ford