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...
Tag: inspired by real life events
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...
Wayfinding in Las Vegas: Walking Shortcut from the Riviera to the Las Vegas Convention Center
I’m in Las Vegas for the American Library Association Annual Conference 2014 (#alaac14). I’m staying at the Riviera and I can actually see the Las V...
How to Give Good Interview: A Post That Goes Beyond Getting Dressed
Today, a friend told me that her 18-year-old daughter wanted my advice for job interviews. My knee-jerk response was “Why does anyone want my advice?” Then I re...
A Special Request and a Long Rant: Coda
After the response I received to last week’s post, I feel I am obligated to pen some form of update. First, I want to say that my network of friends/acqua...
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...
On Fluency: Spanish, BYU, and All the Words
My first Spanish class in college was during the fall. It was my second year at Brigham Young University (a year which was unexpectedly abbreviated due to havin...
Sweet Dreams are Made of Monstrous Alien Creatures
I think that I normally have shitty dreams. I don’t know this for certain. I cycle through phases of dream-remembering and dream-forgetting. Perhaps it is...
Based on a True Story
The walls here are soft, not like a blanket but like one of those boards that you can stick pieces of felt to for telling stories to children. Maybe one day I’l...