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Children’s Books for Father’s Day
One of my happiest childhood memories is the time I spent with my Dad on Friday nights. When my Dad got home from work, we would go to the library to choose books then it would be ‘treat night’ where I was allowed to have chips and watch The Dukes of Hazzard. My mom worked…
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Children’s Books: a Librarian’s Perspective
“The child alone with her or his book is, for me, the true image of potential happiness, of something evermore about to be.” ~ Harold Bloom in Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of all Ages When I was in library school, I had no desire to work in an academic library. You might…
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The History and Enduring Appeal of the Nancy Drew Stories
why I still love Nancy Drew…
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what the librarian read lately…
Many of the books I’ve read over the last few weeks have been very detailed works on aromatherapy. I am nearly through the course work in my Clinical Aromatherapy certificate and excited to be diving deeper into case studies and working on my face oil for my final project/paper. Jennifer Peace Rhind’s comprehensive book has…
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The Lost Art of Nuanced Conversations around health & wellness
If you are a yoga instructor or enthusiast, you may be familiar with Alexandria Crow and the often thought-provoking posts she puts on her Instagram account. Her posts often draw a lot of conversation around the topics of the representation of yoga on social media and the ways Western yoga has moved away from the…