Today is Halloween. You know what REALLY scares me? It’s not the ghosties and ghoulies afoot today and tonight, nor the fake cobwebs draped in my chiropractor’s office, nor the spectre of running out of candy early in the evening–actually we don’t get ANY trick-or-treaters in this 55-and-older community. What really scares me is the...
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We Interrupt This Program
“We interrupt this program…” or this blog. Or as the Python folks used to say, “And now for something completely different.” This week’s post isn’t about books, reading, or writing. Instead, I want to urge all our American readers to get out and VOTE. This is NOT a partisan rant. We are not siding with...
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Book Exchange Party
I’ve written in this space before about the problem of having too many books, when storage becomes an issue, and good ways to find new homes for them. Today I’ll discuss an idea for a related problem: How to dispose of books you no longer want, not because you have no room for them but...
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Speaking Freely
We just celebrated Banned Books Week last week—if “celebrated” is the appropriate word to use when discussing books that have been removed, or requested to be removed, from libraries, schools, bookstores, and other venues.