There’s this book in the teen section of our public library. The cover has a little warning label that says the material is intended for “Older Teens.” It’s about biker babes who catch criminals on the side while wearing leather Daisy Dukes and shredded, metal-studded halters over their heaving double D’s.

It doesn’t leave much to the imagination ( Read more... )

I fall asleep in Peanut's bed about once a week. Usually Wednesday nights. I think it's because I work until nine on Monday and Tuesday and I'm just wiped out by bedtime on Wednesday.

Sure enough, after storytime and snuggles, I conked out. The pink glow of her night lights and the sweet snuggly warmth of her, it's just all too relaxing. I vaguely ( Read more... )

 Balancing personal expression and friends-list sensibilities in determining content.

In college I wrote a paper about identity. Specifically, how I found it scary to just be myself and much simpler to slip, chameleon-like, into the colors of the people around me. I was proud of the ability, if not the social anxiety that predicated it, but my ( Read more... )

Success and happiness? I could use some of that in 2008!

I don't believe in astrology...really, or numerology...much, or tarot...often, but that doesn't stop me from checking out my horoscope when I come across it in a magazine or visiting the card readers on Jackson Square when I'm in New Orleans. Whatever I glean from these esoteric sources, I ( Read more... )

Earlier in the month I heard a report on NPR about the state of reading in America, and I thought that would be the perfect topic for my November newspaper article for the library. I just thought I'd post it here so anyone else interested in literacy could get a peek...

In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts conducted a study on the reading ( Read more... )

It is 1:45 in the morning and I just finished making Sweet Potato Souffle for Peanut's Thanksgiving Feast at her preschool (later) in the morning.

This weekend has been hectic. The last three months have been hectic, but I think this may just be the shape of things to come. I suppose I need to get used to it and give in to a caffiene addiction, ( Read more... )