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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Museum Clubbing
I’m updating the museum club sections of my site. With special assistance from Ms. Miranda I have been thinking about what I want to be next and I am convinced that the next step will involve working with museums, exhibition design, and writing about history and art. This is what I love love love. But I do not think a(nother) graduate degree is necessarily in order. My dream career would involve public speaking and writing, daily contact with physical objects of beauty and meaning, and significantly less time spent on the computer. Intellectually challenging and with a lot of flexibility, this career would offer projects that have a naturally shortish lifespan- like an exhibition or event.
I haven’t had much success getting people to join my free museum clubs- do you all have any suggestions that would get people out of the house on a weekend afternoon to explore their regions and support cultural institutions? Do you think people would be willing to pay someone to design experiences for them that would be social and fun but intellectually stimulating? Perhaps an institution would hire someone who can reach out to a younger demographic in a rigorous way- if there aren’t enough individuals who can afford that.
What do you think?
Dedication
My writing is dedicated to my mother and father.
with thanks to my two favorite teachers, Glenn Ridler and Ernest Benz.
Guest Bloggin’ for the Desk Set
Next month I will be the featured personality over at the deskset, run by the fabulous ladies who are hosting the Biblioball tomorrow night (go, please if you are in NYC- it benefits library services to incarcerated teens- and they have an awesome lineup of entertainments, plus free whiskey Jesse.)
Sarah and Maria said I could write about whatever I want. I’m planning to write some short essays on Children’s Librarianship, Brooklyn vs. Beverly, and uh what else guys? The trick is balancing the confessional nature of blogging with interesting topical writing. Readers, I believe, want both.
Accordingly I’ve been thinking extra hard about my career and the directions it has taken so far- did I have any intention of becoming a children’s librarian when I moved to Brooklyn? No. I did not.
I will post the links to my essays once they are live. I think that you know you have arrived as a blogger when you become a guest blogger. Like a game show personality!
Posted in muttering
Tagged biblioball 09, career, children's librarians, desk set, geography, librarians
Freeland Farm
The house I grew up in as illustrated by my mother for the menu for her Gourmet Club, September 1984.
Posted in arts and crafts, cooking, real estate
Kombucha
Puffy lives in a tree house in Ditmas Park.
There was marmalade stewing in a heavy orange pot.
When she said goodbye, she handed me a thick layer of kombucha mold.
Known as the mother, it makes fizzy fermented tea.
I spilled some in my handbag.
Now a batch is brewing in the kitchen.
Yeast is everywhere. I remember the wild yeast I caught in Greenpoint and the bread it made that smelled so terrible and flopped on the pan, a sick animal.
Cookies.
Well, my ploy to engage my lurking readers didn’t work. (Dad, this means you!) Commenters, dear friends, cookies are on your way this week. Watch the mails. Also, does anyone know why wordpress sometimes registers strange spikes in reader activity? It claims I had 350 views on Saturday, but my statcounter saw nothing. Why?
mommybloggin
babies are good for ratings, right? Meet Paul.
