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Kimberly rediscovers their love of reading and they noticed a trend...

By the time you're reading this, I will have already turned thirty. My feelings about this new decade are complicated, complex, a combination of external messaging and internal angst. Somehow I have made it to this age, the age where I am supposedly an adult, and yet, contradictorily, the year 2000 still does seem that…

Confession: I haven’t read a single book in over a month. For the average person, that might not seem like such a big deal, but for someone whose entire identity for as long as they can remember has revolved around reading… It’s a difficult realization to wrap my brain around. Can I even consider myself…

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…

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…

One of the ironic parts about technically having more time to read, write, and generally get my life together, is that I have zero motivation to do so. In the rare moments where I feel a burst of energy to do something - other than internally debate whether I can pull off hot pink eyeshadow …