During my academic career, I often found myself unsure of where to concentrate my study- part of the reason I gravitated towards librarianship, I think. I first began noting all of the overlapping themes in my humanities, social sciences, and literature classes my first semester in college, in which I…

I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting in the kitchen over the quarantine, trying out various new recipes focused on some favorite foods, and trying my partner’s patience occasionally as well as I insist on plowing on through with weird culinary projects that might turn out to be a disaster…

“If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution,’’ he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can’t see you, but it can crush you. And if that’s the working world, then I don’t want to be…

This post sums up my feelings for all of the Pine Cove trilogy novels, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999), and The Stupidest Angel (2004). I consumed all three of these novels as audiobooks, which is, I believe, the optimal way to experience them. The actors…

We may perhaps be a bit past Halloween by this point, but you know, seeing how much time Christmas dominates this part of the year for weeks before December even starts, I don’t see anything wrong with keeping the Halloween spirit going a little bit longer! …

I have to admit to feeling a distinct sense of relief now that last month’s inauguration has gone off without more violence (so far). President Biden may be far from an inspiring figure but his first few weeks seem to have begun on several positive notes. It’s not much…

So, I have kind of been dreading writing his entry, but it’s been one that I’ve been mulling over for a couple of years now and attempting to tackle for months. I hardly think I am alone in finding myself reading more works of political analysis than I ever…

I mentioned in my last entry how I’d been trying to maintain a Halloween mood throughout the fall in spite of any distractions we might have of late. …

Despite the difficulties of a post-Covid Halloween, I have been doing my best to keep in the Halloween spirit as much as I can. It’s been a little hard to focus this year, dealing not only with the missing the expected Halloween parties, events, and even trick-or-treating that we…