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Experiments: Backwards/Forwards

As of this writing I’m planning to move back to the North Shore in September. I will have had a five month stint as a city resident and commuter during which time some might say I made my life needlessly exhausting and complicated. However, I was running several simultaneous experiments which have yielded positive and [...]

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Couldn’t get too close to Jasper the barred owl- but a Raptor program with fifty kids is a fine way to spend an hour on a Friday afternoon. They asked awesome questions: i.e. Do you ever get more than one owl in an egg? Further research is needed. I also really liked how his keeper [...]

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Check out my neighbor’s fantastic Poem Video!  This is such a great idea.

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When I stop being a front line sort of librarian, I will miss the serendipity of the returns and donations. Today I was handed Rapt by Winifred Gallagher. I haven’t gotten any farther than the epigraph, title above from William James. (Summer reading has begun here, the time when I visit every elementary school in [...]

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Famous Children’s Librarians

Me!

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Good News in the Mail

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Queens

When I was attending night classes in Flushing and working in Bay Ridge, I did not have good feelings about the Borough. It was so far. Now I like it. It is still far, but worth the trip. And not just for the Spa Castle. So very much to explore.

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Please visit The Desk Set to read my essay about children’s librarianship. (Dad, don’t feel left out, I have a whole book to write. Remember how when I was a kid and you kept saying it would all be good material for my novel?)

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Ha! I kill me. What I mean is that in reviewing 2009 I can’t think of a lot of events or discoveries to list, like I did last year. It was an in between sort of year, changeable. So very many fried clams. Although last year’s list is most notable for the things I didn’t [...]

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