I had "someone" send me a 250th postcard distributed at the SAA meeting--any chance those will be available? Would love to use them in my advocacy with my local and state legislators.

Check out Steven Charleston's Ladder to the Light. He is an indigenous elder and Episcopal pastor whose words I've found comforting during this time. He's also on Facebook

Someone posted the question "what institution do you still trust?". The only answer I have is "the public library ". Eliminating or truncating IMLS will do immense harm to the last good institution in this country.

Young Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorite movies--I wore out the videotape version as well as a DVD. What a great reminder of Gene Hackman!

So Blacks were good enough to enlist when they needed people to die in the jungles in Viet Nam....

And backatcha from me and my daughter's rescue pup Ariel who is on an extended vacation here!

Storytelling? To what genre do they aspire: fantasy; horror; science fiction; bodice rippers; kiddie lit?

Pictures? We had lovely red carts at the NY State Archives, and they were a wonderful item of office decor.

Literally, this "looks" good and I will check it out. I'm struggling right now and need some really engaging things to read to keep myself from overthinking for the next year--or four.