Tag: controversey

• Your silence is protection that they do not deserve

  If she had lived, my mother would be turning 66 on March 2nd, 2013. She died in 2007 of an enlarged heart, which, to me, has a poetic justice to it. My mother did not give love easily, but she gave it fiercely. My mother spent much of her life married to a man who…

  Miss Julie

  February 28, 2013

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• The Cockroach Approach: Doughnuts, an interlude

  I posted this quote by John Green on my facebook timeline the other day: “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: ‘You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller,…

  Miss Julie

  June 21, 2012

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