Blogging Through the Anger
I’m not an angry person. At least, I don’t think of myself that way. Some of my family members flare up with white-hot rage, a pyroclasticflow of ma...
Category: the world around us
2017: What Am I Doing?
It turns out that I blogged not at all this year. I was too busy doing everything else. Even though everyone around me was asking “Is 2016 the worst year ...
2016: The Year Ahead
As is my end-of-year custom, I am looking at whether I met my goals for 2015 and considering goals for 2016. I like to set goals for the year because they seem ...
Icelandic Update, or Is It Really an Update If I Haven’t Told You Before Now?
Here’s the thing: I decided to start learning Icelandic in January of this year. I had every intention of writing about the process. As even a cursory gla...
Things I’ve Been Meaning to Blog About: Roller Derby
I have been meaning to blog about roller derby for about two months now. Or maybe three months. In any case, this is the blog post about roller derby. Yesterday...
2015: The Year Ahead
This post is a little bit late becuase it took me a while to figure out just what I wanted to say about the upcoming year. I feel like I accomplised a lot in 20...
Articles I Wrote at ALA Annual Conference 2014
I attended the 2014 American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Becuase I am not content to just sit and listen to everyone, I signed on to wor...
A Special Request and a Long Rant
On behalf of job-seekers everywhere, I would like to make a request. If someone you know is looking for work and describing to you the ongoing struggle involved...
2014: The Year Ahead
I genuinely love New Year’s Day. I find that it is a good time to think about the upcoming year and decide what I want to do with it. I’m not talkin...
Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric Makes Me Want to Smash Things
Every time I see another argument against the apparent evil that is vaccines, I feel the urge to smash faces or throw heavy things around. Vaccines are widely r...