The 6th round of the Library Day in the Life Project is hosted by Bobbi at Librarian by Day and will begin on Monday, 24 January. I look forward to sharing my experiences with you all and reading about the lives of my fellow librarians. My hope is that by participating in this project that…
Family Movie Night: Change of Plans
Has your life worked out the way you planned? I know mine sure didn’t. When I was younger, I thought I’d graduate from high school, go to college and begin a career as a globe~trotting journalist or spy. Instead, I graduated from high school, joined the Army, got married, had 4 children and became a…
Book Review: Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
BOOK DESCRIPTION The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a…
Day 30: My Hopes, Dreams and Plans for the Next 365 Days
This is the time of year when people start writing resolutions and planning to make big changes for the new year and, I can’t lie, I tend to do the same thing. So writing this post should come easy but it doesn’t. Every year I make grand plans and, for the most part, I do…
Day 28: What’s in My Grab Bag?
What do you carry in your handbag or wallet?
Makeup~Free Mondays: Week 3
Yay! I’ve made it to the third week in the Makeup~Free Mondays Challenge. If you don’t know about the challenge, please check out The Beauty Bean. Today was our Christmas Party at work and I was totally and completely makeup~free and it didn’t bother me a bit, nor did it detract from my festive mood.…
Day 25: My Day in Great Detail
Be prepared to be incredibly bored…. 06:15 Wake up 06:30 Drive the kids to the bus stop 06:35~07:00 Watch a variety of news programs; I start with Fox News, flip to CNN then land on The Daily Buzz (Fox bothers me because of the political and familial nepotism, CNN rocks it out with their music…
Day 23: Party in the Library (A YouTube Video)
Nerds, G33ks and other Info Peeps, here ya go… Do you have a favorite video on YouTube?
Day 22: Websites I Enjoy When I Need to Revisit My Youth
I’m such a retro chick. I love TV Land and Nick at Nite, especially when they go old school and air shows like All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times. In fact, I try to find ways to work retro TV shows and music into just about every class I teach. Those shows…
Day 19: My Talent
Is the ability to slay confusion with the appropriate resource one reference question at a time… I can also balance a stack of books, a cup of coffee and a cell phone while fixing a paper jam without breaking a sweat. What’s your talent? Do you use your powers for good or evil?