Dating is one of the few topics that I try to avoid on ye ol’ blog. If I am dating someone, it’s better not to jinx things by an online declaration of the situation. If I’m not dating anyone for (let’s just say hypothetically) a really long time, there’s no need to share that fact…
Tag: reading
Quality Time with my Porch Swing
Yesterday was my second sick day in a year. I did actually go to work for two hours, but then I retreated to my couch and spent a vast majority of the day sleeping, which is exactly what sick days were made for. Sometime after coming out of that coma, I ended up on the…
The Little Things
As I’ve previously mentioned, my goal for 2009 was to finish a book a week. I succeeded, then fell into a giant heap on the floor come January 1, 2010. Those last few weeks involved more panic-induced reading than desirable, so this year’s goal was to read less and enjoy more. The problem with that…
Saturday Footnotes and Seamus Heaney
This isn’t a real post so much as a clump of small thoughts from today. First, I just started reading a book that I’ve hoped to read for a few years (my “to read” list is a little bit out of hand, so sometimes things get lost in the shuffle) . It’s called Ibid: a…
Goodbye, Good Reads Challenge!
Soon after starting my job in February, I joined some co-workers and their friends in a reading challenge. It sounded like fun. I am, after all, a librarian with a competitive streak. What could possibly go wrong with something that combines those two things? I started reading and filling in categories (a book over 700…
Small, but valuable. 