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On the radio tomorrow

You can tune in around 9:45 tomorrow to hear me on the radio!

Talk tonight at Salt Lake City Library

I’m giving a talk tonight at the Salt Lake City Library!

Here’s a blurb about the talk in the Salt Lake Tribune. Here’s the event listing on the library website.

A Domestic Scene Involving a Mallorcan

Husband enters room holding a copy of Tennis Magazine.

Me: They really oiled him up. Nadal. Him: That isn’t oil. He’s a beast. Me: A very shiny beast. No one is naturally that shiny. Him: That’s not oil. He’s a bronze god. Me: No one is that shiny naturally. Him: I am. I’m a sunbeam.

Library Blog Landscape with bonus Naval Gazing

The new issue of Cites and Insights has an excerpt of the book But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009, click on over for the PDF if you enjoy reading some interesting number crunching about library blogs. I find it a little odd to be included in the project, just because I don’t tend [...]

7 years!

It is pretty sad that I’ve been so busy lately I forgot my Blogiversary. This web site has been in existence for 7 years, which must translate into being almost middle-aged in Internet time.

Here, have some virtual cake:

Bureau Chiefs Site is ALIVE!

So things have been busy around here! I’m pleased to announce that the many-headed (just like a hydra, except we write on the internet) group of authors behind FakeAPStylebook known as the Bureau Chiefs has their own web site to showcase their writings at The Bureau Chiefs. I set up the web site with drupal [...]

On driving home with two toddlers

Daddy is going to take the bus home. No Bus Home. Choo Choo! No Choo Choo. Bus! Choo Choo. Bus. Choo Choo. Bus. Choo Choo. Bus. Choo Choo. Bus. Two Choo Choo. Why would Daddy need two trains? Isn’t one train enough? No Two Choo Choo. Two Bus. Two Choo Choo. Two Bus. One Choo [...]

On Grocery Shopping with Two Toddlers

No, you can’t push the mini-shopping cart. Can you help Mommy push the stoller? Put your hands on the stroller! Push Push Push! Do you want strawberries? OK. No, Mommy will carry the strawberries. Please don’t push your brother, push the stroller. You can have some cookies. OK, we will get chocolate teddy bear cookies. [...]

Low Content Mode

I’m about to be traveling for awhile so manga reviews will be on hold for awhile. Traveling with little children means cutting down on my usual library of fun vacation reads in order to have more space to pack sippy cups and Elmo sticker books. I’m only packing one book for myself, Georgette Heyer’s An [...]

Now I am six

I just realized that I’ve been blogging for six years! It has been challenging keeping the site updated since I’m now running around after two toddlers, but I’ll keep plugging away. Thanks for reading everybody!