Homebrew Den Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian Local beer brewers, winemakers, and rootbeer makers, rejoice: Homebrew Den, our local homebrew store, has moved from cramped quarters in a sketchy strip mall to a lovely big store on Market Street, in a mall near Mosaic and Momo’s, near the Market Square stores on Timberlane. A good homebrew […]
Balloons in Tallahassee Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian …at least for now. Obviously I wasn’t on the road the entire time, because I took this picture of balloons at the market one Saturday while I was home. But the balloons mirror how I feel. Hello home! Hello family! Hello Sandy, cats, and Weber grill! Hello, also, […]
Free Kittens!! Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian This September 12 I will be giving a reading at the Babylon Salon in San Francisco. I’m so immersed in my day job that I haven’t sorted out WHAT I am reading, though I think it will be from the essay “Falling In” from the collection Powder. Then again, […]
Note: be sure to read this post if you AREN’T going to ALA Annual — because there’s some free (as in zero-cost) participation opportunities here. For this conference’s LITA Top Technology Trends, I am part of an online team honchoed by Cindi Trainor that will facilitate a concurrent online discussion. I will post to here, […]
The Evergreen conference was truly wonderful. Part of the joy was watching a community come together for the very first time. It’s a scrappy community, one focused on good service to library users, openness, and sharing. We did hackfests and programs and keynotes and table-talks and dine-arounds, and in general, we communed so much that […]
I was afraid to start reading The Whole Five Feet, because I was worried it would be the book that Christopher Beha admits he thought he would be writing — a gimmick book in which a cagey young New Yorker does “X” for a year in order to have done something clever enough to write […]
I have been so busy lately that I complete missed the virulently homophobic “gathering storm” video — until tonight, when I saw it parodied. This video is an uncanny improvement on the original. (My fave: the mom from Massachusetts.) Bookmark to:
Partial Mash Tun, completed Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian Later this week I’m reviewing the DVD shown in this picture, “Stepping into All Grain,” by Basic Brewing. But as I hurtle full-tilt into a busy week, every now and then I take a moment to fondly reflect on a small project I squeezed in between household […]
I had a lovely writing day and also built a writing-submission calendar in Google Calendars, sent out some pieces, scheduled submissions for the next three months, and basically worked on my writing mojo. Restoring my “writing self” has done wonderful things for my ‘tude. Free books! Harper Collins has just started a blog, Library Love […]
When I was a little girl I fell down the stairs. What I remember most is not the eyes-open terror of feeling my awkward, clumsy body suddenly loose and limber in free-fall, an unwilling astronaut launched on a possibly lethal space-walk, but my mother’s story of watching me tumble down the stairs, unable to stop […]