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What’s in the Book?
Some of us are lucky enough to be surrounded by books from the moment we are born. Bedtime stories, board books, the ABCs; all of them gradually preparing us for the big world and motivating us to read ourselves. Thus, memories can not only be brought back by a song we hear on the radio…
Don’t You Wish You Were Here?
Recently, I celebrated my five-year anniversary of working at this most beautificent of public libraries, and despite having worked at the same place long enough my job experience is the equivalent age of a child found old enough to begin their official education… I must admit, I still feel like a little kid with a…
The Water Dancer Lyrically Connects the River With Memory
A Confluence of Writing on Rivers -- Part 3 in a Series About Writing with River Themes Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first work of fiction, The Water Dancer, is as beautiful and provocative as his acclaimed memoirs, essays, and comics. When I finished reading this book I returned to the beginning and I am compelled to linger…
A Virtual Hug, From Me To You
I don’t know about the rest of you, but during these past six months, I’ve been chasing every serotonin high I can possibly wrap my brain around. For a while, my entire life was video games. The cheerful certainty of Animal Crossing: New Horizons kept me company when the world was too big and too…
What is Time Anyways?
My concept of time has been warped since March 13, 2020. As I am writing this (it being September), the weather reminds me of the cooler, rainy days from that week. In a way life feels a bit like Groundhog Day. Everyday feels eerily similar to the next. This gif alone sums up how it…
If the Clouds Just Won’t Clear
A lot of new things happened to me all at once. My best friend moved out, I finished my Master’s degree, and I left one of my jobs, all within the span of a few
(Web) Archiving the Pandemic
As dedicated blog-readers will know, this library is above-and-beyond awesome in a lot of ways. Lest you should think you’ve uncovered all of the library’s secrets, I have another way in which the library is awesome to share with you. And that is: we archive the internet! Since we’re having a big, collective experience of…
Such Pretty Music to My Ears
The other day, I did something that I haven’t done in a long time, and I don’t just mean in our current sense of remembering pre-pandemic days long time. I mean
A Life, Secondhand
And now when I go by a secondhand store I imagine all the lives behind every object: it makes my head spin… -Clara Beaudoux This is how big of a nerd I am: when I first heard about Twitter and its 140-character limit, I imagined that it would basically be a haiku-fest: scads of precision-crafted…
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