Tag: public library

  • Table of Contents

    The table of contents had always been my worst enemy.  I was always tempted to skip forward to the chapter that sounded the most interesting and in doing so often treated chapter books like they were of the Choose Your Own Adventure genre.  The librarians knew my proclivities and tried to gently guide me toward…

  • You Must Be…

    “You must be Brenda. The one who is calling all the shots. The one I have been told to avoid…” Emilia let the words roll off her tongue in obvious disgust. Since I was new to the club, I still wasn’t sure who to trust. Wasn’t sure who I could believe.  I wanted to believe…

  • The Neighbor

    Photo by Tom Rumble on Unsplash  As the ambulance approached my neighbor’s house, I wondered who it was picking up.  I hoped it wasn’t Mr. Cooper.  He was the only neighbor who understood me, much less talked to me.  Everyone else on the street often pretended I didn’t exist and often crossed the street if we were walking…

  • Zines!

    I have recently become obsessed with making zines. It started as an idea for a library program and in trying to make a couple examples, I am now completely obsessing over them and making my own when I am home at night! I have long been obsessed with writing, journals, pens, papers and everything that…

  • March of the Penguins

    One of the things I love about being a Children’s Librarian is the fact I can do arts and crafts as part of my job. And it’s totally normal. Because I can be sort of a bum, I sometimes make bulletin boards that I can keep up for long periods of time and change the…

  • Miss Smith

    PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz The library was the only place I ever felt safe. The only place I could check out as many books as I could carry. My parents never kept eyes on me after school so the public library became my stomping ground. Miss Smith came to be one of my most…