Halloween was a few weeks ago and the pickings were blah! There were not a lot of candy giving going on but the merry old land of November 1st yielded bags of half off loot from CVS.Mmmm! M&M’s! The Bee and her Girl Scout Troop were invited to a Harvest Party where they could also help to get credit towards…
Last month was the annual PaLA Convention and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend, this time in my loverly state capital. I feel that I have come full circle in my time as a library type. No longer am I seized by the crushing fear that I will be singled out and asked to leave for masquerading…
It’s Novemberrrr and the first storytime for the month was all about the letter N. I borrowed the idea of a letter themed storytime from a blog and loves, loves, loves it! The letter themed storytime is so much fun! Using this a starting point I am not strictly married to one theme, and can use this as excuse to…
The frantic call came few Mondays ago as I prepared for a circle time: “The Bee fell at school during gym and chipped her front tooth! Can you call her dentist, I don’t know the number.” Annoyed with her dad (why don’t dads EVER know the number to anything) I pushed that aside to ask if she were OK. He…
So last night I went to see Chris Rock’s docu-dramadey Good Hair. This is not a new subject for me; hair talk has been and is a ‘thing’ that just is. Everybody’s got their something and for scores of Black Women, including yours truly, that something is hair. For those not in the know, Good Hair was born from Chris…