Free Range Librarian

O.k., this blog isn’t really after world domination… I suspect I’d have to post a lot more often, for starters, and besides, I have to get ready for the Florida Library Association conference.
But on a whim I created a Facebook page for Free Range Librarian, and then posted it to my Facebook profile, and then [...]

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Our friend Gail just received a kidney/pancreas, after what felt like a decades-long wait.
If you “mean to” get around to ensuring you’re a donor, please do it. Someone’s decision gave Gail a new lease on life.
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I’m not really driving a hybrid (not that I would object if Santa put a forest-green Prius in my stocking this year); I still have my 1993 Honda Civic, which gets a respectable mileage for its 4-mile commute to my office. So the title of this post is a metaphor for how I’m approaching Lent [...]

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Note: you can email and IM me at  kgs@freerangelibrarian.com . Or  twitter me at kgs, or poke me on Facebook.
A couple of weeks ago a physicist who had been exchanging pleasantries by email with me commented that I seemed down, and I told him it felt as if my life were assembled from someone [...]

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A tree in our front yard is brushed with pink, and grey-green streams of Spanish moss sway in the breeze. Woody, a huge woodpecker in tuxedo and bright red fez, clings to a telephone pole as he drills for his petit dejeuner, rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat. Black Cat, our scruffy neighborhood scout, patrols up and down the [...]

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The United Church of Christ is soliciting members to create short videos on YouTube. For that matter, the UCC has its own YouTube space.
With the help of a young sidekick (code name Fellini–he’s a librarian’s son, too) I’ve been taping services since we got here earlier this month with an eye to putting the [...]

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I was wandering through the “generics” section of a grocery store in Manhattan in the early 1980s–row after row of black and white boxes with no-nonsense labels such as OATMEAL and PAPER TOWELS–when I heard a woman whisper to her shopping mate, “This must be what the Soviet Union is like.”
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By the time the moving truck rolled away yesterday afternoon, I had collected $6.42 from the change scattered under couches and beds, lurking in dark corners, and falling out of pockets of the last few things I stuffed into boxes. I will stuff this found money in an envelop and save it for Tallahassee–perhaps for [...]

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On the final approach to SFO last night the fog was as beautiful as I had ever known it, a thick white sateen rope draped casually on the mountains, and the rumpled waters of the Bay were sparkling, and it was all so beautiful I was torn between looking and not looking, knowing this was [...]

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We decided to beat Ernesto to the punch, wherever he was going, and pushed to get to Tallahassee a day and a half ahead of schedule. It’s been a good trip (and I’m not done–I soon return to California, wrap things up, then fly back). I’m going to put up my feet and read a [...]

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