Getting Psyched For Halloween, Librarian Style

I’ve found that one of the crummy things about being an adult, in addition to the obvious ones like having to pay for everything and the loss of the social acceptability of playing in the Chuck E. Cheese’s ball pit, is that I no longer get as naturally excited about holidays. I now have to … Continue reading →

Reading Writing That Isn’t “Right”

Earlier this week, as I was perusing show times in preparation for one of my biannual trips to the movies, I came across “The Counselor.” Thanks to the dumbed down, relentlessly Hollywood-style preview for the movie that’s been running in TV commercials, I knew almost nothing about it except that it stars a cowboy hat-clad … Continue reading →

Heritage Fest Ahoy!

The majority of my and my colleagues’ collective day today has been spent feverishly preparing for Benbrook Heritage Fest, our city’s annual festivity filled free festival type thing. It’s a jambaroo of food, music, crafts, and general merriment. The best part of the whole shebang, obviously, will be the library booth. It will be manned … Continue reading →

The Library Takes a Cue From a Fictional Beet Farmer

On multiple occasions, I’ve heard TV pejoratively referred to as the “idiot box.” I understand why people would condemn it with such a hateful name; there’s a lot of mind-numbing junk littering its landscape. But TV has also got a lot of great stuff to offer. Educational stuff. Stuff to that can improve your life. … Continue reading →

Hoarding vs. Weeding: The Eternal Struggle

I’m something of a hoarder. I don’t have an acute case of the hoardsies like those extreme hoarders on that hoarding show (I think it’s called “People Who Can’t Throw Stuff Away”), but I’m willing to acknowledge that I have a slight problem. I don’t have rooms full of used styrofoam food containers or anything … Continue reading →