MAKE SOME MEMORY MOMENTS AT THE SMART PLAY SPOT
Memory moments, have you had one? I’ve been having them all of my life. They happen when I’m in the midst of a particularly pleasant experience and I think to myself, “I don’t want to forget this.”...
View ArticleFREE TO READ, FREE TO BE
I think the author Chris Bohjalian wrote his latest book just for me! The title: “The Light in the Ruins”, published July 2013. It’s a story of war and murder, at once both historical fiction and a...
View ArticleWINTER READING FULL SPEED AHEAD!
A North wind is hammering out a raucous melody on the wind chimes outside my bedroom window, yard work is pretty much done for the season, the winter tires are on the car, and my husband and I have...
View ArticleTHE LIBRARY: SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST BOOKS
When I think ”library” I conjure up images of stacks of books, bins of music CDs, shelves of recorded books, displayers with DVDs, and on and on – the physical materials. In reality a library is so...
View ArticleWHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?
Now that’s a very good question! The Norwegian musical group Ylvis seems to be pondering that very question in their 2013 song of the same name. The YouTube video of the song has been hugely popular....
View ArticleCome for the books, stay for the art…
Over the past few years Washington County Library has installed art rails at branch libraries in Cottage Grove, Forest Lake, Mahtomedi, Oakdale, and Woodbury to showcase the work of local artists. On...
View ArticleSave your words!
The other day I was going through my computer files and I came across a letter I had written to my daughter, away at college. It was a wonderful discovery. The letter immediately brought the time and...
View ArticleTake Home an Elephant and a Pig?
That’s what librarians at the R.H. Stafford Library in Woodbury and the Valley Library in Lakeland are asking parents to do this coming summer! It’s just one of the fun summer programs being offered at...
View ArticleFinding the Best Book Ever!
The ultimate holiday weekend of the summer–the 4th of July– is now past and unless you have a vacation planned it’s almost two months before another. Time for some summer reading! Time to look for your...
View ArticleTime to Get Off the Road!
In his classic rock song “The Times They Are A-Changin’” Bob Dylan sang these words: “Your old road is rapidly aging/Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand/For the times they are...
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