Nora Robertson

My friend B. Frayn Masters just sold me a couch that has a secret service serial number tag on the back. She got a beautiful new cream living room set and I took the secret service couch to my classroom for my Reading Lounge.  I like to make reading seem more attractive by providing comfortable furniture and an area rug.  I’m not sure how the couch got to Portland.  I think B. Frayn found it in a vintage store.  I told my kids in the credit recovery class that it was a secret service couch.  I don’t let the other classes use the couch except during SSR so they don’t have that much time with it.  Credit recovery is independent study though.  The kids sometimes sit on the couch to do offline assignments and if they finish early, chat about the heavy metal band they’re in together or skateboarding.  They wanted to pull it out and look at the serial number tag.

A lanky kid with long black bangs helped me move it out and back so they could look.  It’s really heavy.  It definitely could withstand whatever couches go through in a secret service waiting room.  The kid said, I think joking, “What if it’s bugged and they’re listening to our conversations?”