Archive for the ‘found’ Category
Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor
Posted in found, photography, tagged beaches, boston, ferry, harbor islands, national park, summer on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Experiments: Backwards/Forwards
Posted in found, tagged life, moving, work on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
owls on the job.
Posted in found, tagged animal rescue, children's librarians, libraries, owl on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
How to Make a Crab Cake by January Gill O’Neil
Posted in found, poem, tagged crab cake, poem, poetry on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Check out my neighbor’s fantastic Poem Video! This is such a great idea.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
Posted in found on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Famous Children’s Librarians
Posted in found on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Me!
Good News in the Mail
Posted in found, tagged love, mail, miranda, post office on February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Queens
Posted in found on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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.
All About My Mother
Posted in found, tagged brooklyn public library, children's librarians, children's literature, library, mother on January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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?)
Let’s get Liminal
Posted in found, tagged desk set, film, museum club, new year's, resolutions, writing on December 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
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 [...]