I’m in Sheboygan for the state public library conference, half-listening to a panel of earnest librarians discussing the Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. Later today I am on another panel of earnest librarians, discussing non-fiction books. I am doing food writing. With no technology – we’re going to be talking and holding up books. OK. I […]
So behind …. Last time I wrote was Saturday, April 12. In between then and now, we went to Chicago for a short visit, I had most of a work week, including my annual review, and we had belated Passover on Good Friday. The Chicago trip was fun even though the weather wasn’t the greatest […]
So when we got here, the librarians were sharing the conference area with dishwasher soap salesman – EcoLab. Now the Big 10 tournament folks are coming in – I think I waited in the Starbucks line with Penn State staff this morning. Starbucks in the Onmi Hotel, so one of the nicer hotels, and there […]
I’m in Indianapolis for the Public Library Association Conference. We drove down Tuesday, leaving Madison at noon. It was 68° when we got to Indy last night – but the forecast was awful – 2 – 4 inches of heavy wet snow by 4:00 PM on Weds. It was an easy drive – we […]
Our last day in Philadelphia, we went to the new Barnes Museum. I know there is a faction who believe that the collection should never have been wrested from Dr. Barnes cold dead hands – there’s even a documentary about it – but honestly, Barnes was such a control freak. He wanted to utterly […]
Sunday morning it was the OCLC update breakfast – a chance to hear about what’s new at the big global library consortium, delivered in a talk by the president and CEO. For as long as I’ve been going to these, probably about 15 years, OCLC has had the same president, a guy named Jay […]
So let’s see – got here on Thursday night around 9:00 – the plane landed around 7:45 but it took kind of a while to get into the city and checked in to the room. We’ve been spoiled by staying at boutique hotels like Kimptons. This is an Embassy Suites – huge cavernous space with […]
Our first Saturday at TIFF was rainy. We only had one movie, our second of the festival, at 9:30 in the morning – Palo Alto, directed by Gia Coppola – her directorial debut. I thought she must be Sofia Coppola’s little sister – but instead, Sofia is Gia’s aunt. Gia is the daughter of Sofia’s […]
Mark went back yesterday, a day early, because his cat escaped out of a second floor window – silly kitty. She’s a de-clawed Maine coon, so she looks big, but she’s only about 10 months old so still a bit kitten-dumb. And loose on the neighbor hood with raccoons and dogs. Our kids looked for […]
It was a weekend of graduations. On Saturday, I made a dinner for my upstairs renter at the supper club house, who got her PhD in a convocation Friday evening. The menu was: light apps – goat cheese, red pepper, olive & pesto torta, with long rise baguettes, and crackers and peppadews; salami; nuts […]