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At the last meeting of the Used Book Store committee, we came around to the topic of having multiple copies of books. Should we keep every copy on the shelves? Perhaps take extra copies to sell to Half Price Books? Someone threw out the… Continue Reading “Trying Something New”
I was having dinner last night with my nephew, Alex, aged 4 1/2. My brother, Scott, was waiting for his wife so they could leave for dinner: Scott: Alex, tell Aunt Anne what we did today.Alex: We went to see the Barrington Broncos practice… Continue Reading “Conversations with Alex”
I spent the night with Alex and Ainslie while their parents were out. We told Alex that the next morning he would get to go on a “special trip” with Aunt Anne. He was so jazzed that he didn’t want to eat breakfast. I… Continue Reading “Adventures with Alex”
“I will return your call at my earliest convenience,” was part of the recorded message I received from a vendor’s voicemail. I once had a co-worker that had a similar outgoing message and it bothered me. Not the timing – I don’t expect people… Continue Reading “Another Rant about One’s Choice of Words”
Jason Whitlock was talking about Favre in his Fox Sports column today. He says that “Britney” Favre (he didn’t coin it) is our own fault because we keep clicking on his name. Yeah. Sorry about that. But this was his higher message: “You blame… Continue Reading “The Circus”
Spooky the Cat has been really clingy lately. In a Wants to Cuddle While I’m Sleeping way. Middle of last night, he had been sleeping in the crook of my arm when I got up to go to the bathroom. When I returned, he… Continue Reading “Spooky: 10,986 Anne: 1”
Google’s “Blogs of Note” had a good one today: Forgotten Bookmarks is written by someone in a used book store and it writes about random things found during the intake process. I find things in the donated books pretty regularly at the library. Generally,… Continue Reading “Blogs of Note”
I hate interior decorating. I’m not good at it and I don’t care enough. When I first started working, I sat at a 1960-something desk in what had once been a small storage room. From my chair, I was looking at a wall lined… Continue Reading “Interior Decorating”
Book 33 I was in the mood for some schmaltz, so I pulled Bob Greene’s And You Know You Should Be Glad from my shelf. I had originally picked it up at the Library Used Book Store. Greene had a lifelong best friend develop… Continue Reading “And You Know You Should Be Glad, by Bob Greene”
Good Morning America had a story this morning about a new therapy dog program: Reading to a dog. The idea is that children learn to read best when practicing aloud. Many are loathe to practice aloud in the classroom out of fear of being… Continue Reading “Reading Education Therapy Dogs”
The Next Dark Age 