I bet this won’t be the last version of this, but it still gives my Denver-bound colleagues some idea of my 411 in Denver. Thursday, Jan 22 Thursday afternoon, arrive in Denver Thursday night dinner, MJ Friday, Jan 23 Friday morning booth setup Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. confab w/colleague Friday 1:30 p.m. – [...]
ALA is offering us a chance to submit questions to its presidential candidates by YouTube. We have TWO great candidates — I think highly of Roberta Stevens and Kent Oliver — and I am sure they will do justice to the post, regardless of who’s elected. So I am struggling to come up with a [...]
I’m pleased to say the car emergency reported yesterday ended All Well for two reasons: I knew that an oil light meant I needed to stop the car within seconds (and miraculously, a generous road shoulder and light traffic made that possible), and — as I explained to the two Honda dealerships who worked with [...]
Several weeks ago Kore Press notified me that they had nominated my essay, “Falling In,” for a Pushcart prize (“Best of the Small Presses”). This essay is in Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, which, might I add, is a mighty fine read all around and makes a lovely gift for the soldier or [...]
I’ll get into more details tomorrow, but I’m stuck in Macon tonight due to sudden, and very harrowing, car troubles. Feel free to send mental warm fuzzies my way! (Oh, and because two people have asked, Sparkle, my beloved Honda Civic Hybrid, is VERY reliable. The mechanic at the dealership who changed its oil and [...]
In libraries, for instance, I advocated for protecting the book budget but advocated against spending to buy television sit-coms, such as Seinfeld. Also, as a long-term strategy, I advocated for abandoning the Dewey Decimal System (DDS) and advocated for a more user-friendly method such as that used by any national book chain. The harsh reality [...]
Best Biscuits Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian By design, because we could, we essentially had the same meal twice for Christmas. In the morning, by popular demand, I served biscuits and sausage gravy. Then for dinner we had oyster pan roast, almost verbatim from the recipe in my Oyster Bar cookbook, except served over split toasted [...]
I ignored my reading backlog last week and glommed down Tom Piazza’s Katrina novel, City of Refuge. It was nothing short of amazing. Not an absolutely perfect book (once in a great while the characters become leaden) but still, an extraordinary book of an extraordinary time. As Miriam says in a comment on an earlier [...]
The reading backlog Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian This is the backlog I’ll publicly confess to. I have other books I have quietly placed in the giveaway box, but since some of them are gifts, I’m not showing that picture. Life is short… I’ll give these titles another try, but if these books are unread a [...]
So, 2008 was an interesting year. I changed jobs, Sandy resigned from hers, the economy tanked, I saw some writing published, I went to many places, notably Oz, and Obama was elected. Friends survived cancer and transplants; some had babies; some got married; some moved on. I don’t want to put too many brackets around [...]
