Posts Tagged ‘library’
A very special chair and a recommendation to librarians everywhere
I visited the Townsend Library in Massachusetts this week. I spoke to some lovely people about my path to becoming a writer, ordered them to go home and write, answered some interesting questions about my books, teaching, and the writing process, and then listened in as a book club discussed The Perfect Comeback of Caroline…
Read MoreThe moment for which every author longs, experienced by my wife.
My wife was checking out books at the library when a woman stepped up beside her and handed Unexpectedly, Milo to the adjacent librarian. “That’s my husband’s book,” Elysha said. “What?” the woman asked. “What?” the librarian asked. “That’s my husband’s book,” she repeated. “He wrote it.” “He did?” the woman said. “He did?” the…
Read MoreMystery behind this photograph solved, though the solution was fairly obvious.
Yesterday, I wished that I knew the story behind this photograph. Thanks to a kind reader, today I know. It was a librarian, of course. Those fanatical zealots of books, always looking for a way, however crazy it may seem, to get a story into your hands. Honestly, who else could it have been?
Read MoreMy daughter received her first library card. Her father might be more excited about it than she is, and for good reason.
My daughter received her first library card last weekend. She was thrilled. I think my wife and I were even more excited than she was. She also checked out her first book with it: If You Give a Moose a Muffin. I didn’t receive my first library card until I was ten years-old.…
Read MoreI’ve always thought that a library fine was a good thing. Unexpected income. Some librarians have disagreed. Am I wrong?
From a piece in the Hartford Courant entitled Wethersfield Library Begins ‘Food For Fines’ Program: For a limited time, Wethersfield Library patrons can pay their overdue fines with a can of beans or a jar of spaghetti sauce. The library’s Food for Fines program, which began Monday and lasts through the end of August, donates…
Read MoreI am a library maker.
Clara told me that I am a “library maker.” “Because you make books, Daddy,” she said. She could’ve burned the house down and spent all the money in the checking account on chocolate ice cream and doll house furniture (her two favorite things), and I still wouldn’t have punished her today.
Read MoreMy daughter’s favorite library is not a library
My wife agreed to bring my daughter to her favorite library yesterday. “The one with the stage and the trains,” she said. The main branch of the West Hartford public library has both a stage and a train set in its children’s section, so naturally they went there. Upon arriving, Clara said, “We’re going to…
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