Well, the long weekend was welcome. I just wish it was longer so that I could get out of this very deep funk I’ve been in for a while. Some good things happened this weekend. For one thing, we had a really enjoyable time at church. The pastor’s message on Revelation [...]

As someone who is still adjusting to the vagaries of living in rural Indiana and who still doesn’t take kindly to being called a “Hoosier,” I thought these Indiana-isms, sent to us by friends and whose source is unknown, were pretty funny. They are funny because many of them are very, very true. [...]

Yesterday Dan (my library director), Matt (one of the students with whom I work), and I went to Indy to meet with some other libraries within our consortium, PALNI, to demonstrate our periodical management system, which we call TPAS (Taylor Periodical Administration System). I have to admit to quite a bit of nervousness about [...]

Last night Keegan complained of having some kind of rash or irritation in his “nether region.” He asked Michele, “Mom, can I have some slov for my butt?” Once we figured out that what he was trying to say was salve for his rear end, we both laughed ’til we cried.

A while ago I mentioned that I had written an article for Serials Review on periodical management systems, and that I had been working for quite some time on such a system at my library. This topic continues to be of interest to a lot of folks. Recently there have been two or [...]

When I got back from my meeting in Indianapolis late this afternoon I was able to talk with Paul, a student who has worked for me for a couple of years and who graduated this past weekend from Taylor. He and the third student who works for me, Ashley, were the ones who got [...]

In an earlier posting I mentioned that I was going to a session on library blogs as marketing tools held at the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium (GCLC). I also stated that I didn’t think I’d learn much from the session, which in retrospect sounds kinda snotty, and I didn’t mean it that way. [...]

This week is an “interesting” one. I have all-day meetings every day. Yesterday I was in Indianapolis, today I’m going to a meeting in Cincinnati, tomorrow I’m back in Indy, Thursday I am going to a meeting in Ft. Wayne, and Friday, I’m back in Indy again. It’s only Tuesday and I’m [...]

Click here to see some photos of my brother Dan’s house that he will own as of June 14. It looks like a really nice place!

We spent part of this weekend travelling to a wedding in Green Bay, Wisconsin. On our way there we stopped at my in-law’s in Illinois. We shopped briefly at a local Target to get some things for the trip, and Brinley fell against the edge of the shopping cart and split open her [...]