A week ago I started having some sharp pain in my upper back and right shoulder. I shrugged it off as simple muscle pain, maybe from sleeping in my usual twisted position after the kids started piling into the bed with us the night before. (We need a king-size bed; a queen-size bed [...]

When I was a kid growing up in east central Illinois, Champaign-Urbana was “the big city” (actually, they are two separate cities). Ever since I can remember, my mother would took us to the public libraries in both cities (Urbana Free Library, and the Champaign Public Library). The current buildings for both libraries [...]

I am currently reading what I think is a great book, entitled Carryin’ On and written by R. Scott Brunner. I picked it up at Borders in West Lafayette the other day ’cause it looked interesting and it was cheap (on the remainders tables). Since I find it very hard to find books [...]

Well, I thought I was off to a good start with this new hobby of mine, buying and selling books. I was wrong. I got really excited when I picked up a very clean 1st ed. of James Michener’s novel, The Caribbean, the other day. Checking on various Internet book sites such [...]

The kids made their own cards to give to me for my birthday this year, a couple of weeks ago. Here is the one Keegan made. I think it’s cool.

A couple of years ago, I happened to read about a software program called Readerware that was created to enable users to catalog their home collections of books, CDs, videos, and DVDs. Being the library geek that I am, and with my background in cataloging, my interest was immediately piqued. I downloaded a [...]

Thanks to a gift card to Borders from my generous brother-in-law, I was recently able to buy the boxed sets of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes on DVD. These represent around 20 of the episodes which originally aired on TV in the 1980s. I have watched [...]

I’m sure I’ll offend at least someone by this review, but if you have the stomach for it, read on, dear reader…This movie stinks, stinks, stinks. I fail to understand why it is so popular, except when I realize that probably the vast majority of viewers are silly teenage girls, the same demographic that [...]

Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) and Aaron Schmidt (Walking Paper) are asking for input for an article on blogging and libraries that they are writing. If you work in a library and also are a blogger, I strongly encourage you to respond to their survey questions.